Microsoft Word - numero_50_art_26_2574 V. Iasnii et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 50 (2019) 310-318; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.26 310 The effect of temperature on low-cycle fatigue of shape memory alloy V. Iasnii, P. Yasniy, D. Baran Faculty of Engineering of Machines, Structures and Technologies, Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University, Ternopil, Ukraine v_iasnii@tntu.edu.ua, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5768-5288 petroyasniy@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1928-7035 jaturonkabat@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2067-8164 A. Rudawska Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Lublin, Poland a.rudawska@pollub.pl, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3592-8047 ABSTRACT. The influence of temperature on the fatigue properties of pseudoelastic NiTi under low-cycle fatigue are investigated. Tests were performed under the uniaxial tensile deformation (pull-pull) at 0°С and 20°С which is above the austenite finish temperature. Experimental results indicate that the fatigue life of NiTi alloy increases with the decrease of test temperature from 20°С to 0°С in the case of presenting the results depending on the strain range and dissipated energy. Regardless the test temperature, with the increase of number of cycles to failure, the stress and strain ranges, as well as the dissipation energy decrease, and the total dissipation energy and Odqvist’s parameter increase. The slope of the fatigue curves of NiTi alloy is greater at the temperature of 0°С in comparison with the 20°С in the case of employing the stress range, strain range, Odqvist’s parameter, and total dissipation energy as the failure criteria, and is less while employing the dissipation energy as the failure criterion. KEYWORDS. Pseudoelsticity; NiTi alloy; Low-cycle fatigue; Odqvist’s parameter; Dissipated energy. Citation: Iasnii, V., Yasniy, P., Baran, D., Rudawska, A., The effect of temperature on low-cycle fatigue of shape memory alloy, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 50 (2019) 310-318. Received: 26.07.2019 Accepted: 19.08.2019 Published: 01.10.2019 Copyright: © 2019 This is an open access article under the terms of the CC-BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. INTRODUCTION nlike traditional structural materials, shape memory alloys (SMA) are characterized not only by mechanical and operational properties but also by functional ones. The functional properties of SMA include shape memory effect and the pseudoelasticity. Typical stress-strain curve of pseudoelastic SMAs above the austenite finish temperature shows a large hysteresis loop during loading and unloading. The hysteretic behaviour results in a high dissipation energy and stored strain energy which ensure high performance of SMA as a material for damping and storing the energy. U http://www.gruppofrattura.it/VA/50/2574.mp4 V. Iasnii et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 50 (2019) 310-318; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.26 311 The application of SMAs depends on the phase transformation temperatures, mechanical and functional properties, type of loading (static, cyclic and thermo-mechanical). SMA are increasingly used in machine parts, implants [1, 2]. Due to the high ability to energy dissipation, SMA are used in damping devices for civil engineering [3–6] or other structural elements [7, 8]. As they are subjected to intense cyclic loading during operation, it is important to ensure their reliability and lifetime under low-cycle fatigue [9]. Defects, such as internal subsurface voids, surface scratches which lead to crack initiation, play significant role under low- cycle fatigue [10]. Also, fatigue microcracks can initiate at the martensite–martensite or austenite–martensite interfaces [11]. The martensite– martensite or austenite–martensite interface motion causes the formation of defects in the grain, these defects becoming potential crack initiation areas. Cracks can initiate at the grain boundaries [12]. The cyclical loading affects not only the ability of the material to resist structural fatigue, but also the functional properties. Therefore, it is necessary to know how their functional and structural properties change in order to design reliably the devices and structural elements made of pseudoelastic SMA which operate under fatigue loading. It is also important to take into account the balance between structural and functional fatigue. Under a cyclic loading the residual strain [13] increases and the dissipation energy reduces, thus worsening the efficiency of the damping devices [14]. Residual martensite plates increase with the number of cycles and are considered to be one of the causes of the formation of a residual strain during cyclic loading [15]. Lifetime of SMA can be predicted by stress- [16, 10], strain- [17-19] and energy based criteria [10] of fatigue failure. An overview of the structural fatigue of SMA under mechanical and thermomechanical loading is presented, for instance in the paper [20]. For low - cycle fatigue the strain amplitude and the number of cycles to failure could be represented by the empirical dependence fN    (1) where  and β represent εa in Nf =1 and the slope of the logΔε - logNf curve, respectively. For NiTi wire of 0.5 mm in diameter under rotating-bending fatigue test the relationship between  and T is expressed by the following equation [21]: ( )10 sa T Ms    (2) where T is test temperature; Ms – martensite start temperature. Based on the experimental results, the coefficients are determined as β = 0.28, αs= 0.248, a = 0.0032 K-1 [21]. For NiTi tube with outer diameter of 0.9 mm and inner 0.7 mm under rotating-bending fatigue test the dependence of α on T is expressed by the following equation [21]: 0 0( ) n m T T     (3) Based on the experimental results, the coefficients are determined as β = 0.25, m = 0.065 Kn, n = 0.4, T0 = 297 K, α0 = 0.057. A quasi-linear dependence of logΔWdis on logNf for several values of the mean stress. It is, hence, interesting to approximate experimental results using the following curve [22]: 1 1dis fW N   (4) where ΔWdis – is dissipation energy per cycle; α and β are material parameters. Numerical results are in good agreement with experimental data for α = 11 and β = −0.377. A damage based fatigue failure model by dividing the total damage sources into three parts, i.e., microcrack initiation, microcrack propagation and martensite transformation induced damage was proposed by Song [23]. The damage variable as the ratio of the accumulated dissipation energy after a prescribed number of cycles to that obtained at the failure life was defined V. Iasnii et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 50 (2019) 310-318; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.26 312 1 1 / f N N i ii i D W W      (5) where Wi is the dissipation energy at i-th loading cycle. So it is important to study the influence of temperature, above the austenite finish temperature, on structural fatigue of pseudoelastic NiTi alloy. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP AND MATERIAL he influence of temperature (at 0°C and 20°C) on structural fatigue was studied on pseudoelastic Ni55.8Ti44.2 alloy. Characteristics of thermal transitions during SMA phase transformations were investigated using Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) by DSC Q1000 TAI [24]. Austenite finish temperature is Af = – 38.7°С. Material has the following mechanical properties at 0°С and 20°С: yield strength, 0.2 = 447 MPa and 523 MPa, ultimate tensile strength, UTS = 869 MPa and 780 MPa [24, 25]. The chemical composition of the alloy according to the delivered certificate is as follows: 55.78% Ni;0.005% Co; 0.005% Cu; 0.005% Cr; 0.012% Fe; 0.005% Nb; 0.032% C; 0.001% H; 0.04% O; 0.001% N and 44.12% Тi. Cylindrical specimens with a diameter of 4 mm and gage length of 12.5 mm, machined from rod 8 mm in diameter, were tested under uniaxial cyclic loading at temperature 0°С and 20°С at stress ratio R = min/max = 0 (here min and max are the minimum and maximum stresses) on the servo-hydraulic machine STM-10 [26] with automated control and data acquisition system under sinusoidal load with a frequency of 0.5 Hz. Fatigue tests were carried out under displacement–controlled mode at 0°С. In this case, the maximum stress, except for the first twenty loading cycles, remains constant [24]. Therefore, it can be assumed that the stress range was constant during the testing (the stress range was changed less than 3%). Fatigue tests were carried out under stress–controlled mode at 20°С. Longitudinal strain was measured by Bi-06-308 extensometer produced by Bangalore Integrated System Solutions (BISS), maximum error did not exceed 0.1%. The crosshead displacement was determined by inductive Bi-02-313 sensor with an error not more than 0.1%. The tests at 0°С were carried out in the chamber filled with ice and ice water. This provided the constant temperature of 0°C measured by chromel–alumel thermocouple mounted on the sample with an error not more than 0.5°C. A literature review [24] shows that water have not significant influence on fatigue behaviour of NiTi alloys [21, 27–29]. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION he dependences of the stress range Δσ on the number of cycles to failure Nf for NiTi alloy in ice water at 0°С and at 20°С in the air are shown in Fig. 1. Stress range was determined at the number of half-cycles to failure. Experimental data under low-cycle fatigue presented on Fig. 1, are plotted according to the failure criterion of the specimen, and could be well-enough described by power function fN      (6) The parameters  and  in Eqn. (6), that were determined by fitting of experimental data (Fig. 1), are given in Tab. 1. The increase of testing temperature from 0 to 20°С increases the fatigue lifetime under low-cycle fatigue at Nf > 1000 cycles and decreases the angle of relationship between lgΔσ and lgNf. A similar effect of testing temperature (323K, 333K) on the fatigue lifetime was found for Ti 50.7at%Ni alloy [30]. Fig. 2 shows experimental fatigue curves in coordinates strain range versus number of cycles to failure of the specimen. The strain range values were determined at the number of half-cycles to failure, in the same way as stress range. The experimental data were fitted by means of Eqn. (1) with the determined parameters, which are given in Tab. 1. The linear behavior of the dependence of the strain amplitude on the number of cycles to failure under low-cycle fatigue at different ratios between the test temperature and the austenite finish temperature, is confirmed by the results obtained by the authors [31–33]. In contrast to the data presented in Fig. 1, using strain range as a criterion of fatigue failure, fatigue lifetime of pseudoelastic Ni55.8Ti44.2 alloy at 20°С is significantly lower than at 0°С. Moreover, the slope angle of both curves in logarithmic scales is T T V. Iasnii et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 50 (2019) 310-318; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.26 313 approximately the same (parameter β in Tab. 1). Such effect of temperature on low-cycle fatigue lifetime are similar for NiTi wire of 0.5 mm in diameter and NiTi tube with outer diameter of 0.9 mm and inner 0.7 mm under rotating-bending fatigue test at temperatures 20°C - 80°C [21]. Fatigue lifetime increase with the decrease in temperature from 383 K to 293 K for 3 kinds of Ti–Ni base shape memory alloy wires with the compositions of Ti– 50.0 at%Ni, Ti–50.5 at%Ni and 50.85 at%Ni, respectively under rotary bending fatigue tests [19]. This was observed for wires with diameter of 1.0 mm. Figure 1: Dependence of the stress range on the number of loading cycles in ice water at 0°С and at 20°С in the air. The fatigue life was estimated using the Odqvist’s parameter, which characterizes the accumulated plastic strain p, and under uniaxial cyclic loading is determined by formula [34] 2 pN   (7) where N is the numbers of loading cycles. T, °С   R2   R2 A B R2 Eq. (1) Eq. (6) Eq. (9) 0 8.754 ±1.339 0.14 ±0.026 0.868 943.7 ±53.84 0.0814 ±0.00898 0.933 2.472 0.0581 0.941 20 5.379 ±1.634 0.198 ±0.05 0.944 788.6 ±10.56 0.0396 ±0.00195 0.997 3.018 0.0205 0.999 Table 1: Equations parameters for Ni55.8Ti44.2 alloy Replacing N in Eqn. (7) on Nf and taking into account that for the SMA the plastic strain range can be replaced by the expansion of the elastic deformation Δε, the formula (7) can be rewritten as follows: 2N   (8) In the Eqn. (8), the strain range  was determined in the same way (at N=0.5 Nf) as in the previous cases. According to the Fig. 3, the Odqvist's parameter increases linearly proportional to the number of loading cycles before the failure of the specimen and is well described by the dependence f fA B N    (9) V. Iasnii et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 50 (2019) 310-318; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.26 314 The constant values (Tab. 1) of the Eqn. (9) were determined by the approximation of the experimental data using the least squares method. Analysis of the experimental dependencies in Fig. 3 shows that Odqvist's parameter χf, before failure of material, increase with the decrease in temperature from 20 to 0°C. Moreover, the Odqvist's parameter at both temperatures 0°C and 20°C significantly increase with the increase in loading cycles. It implies from the analysis of experimental dependencies, presented on Fig. 3, that the value of Odqvist's parameter before the fatigue failure of material χf is increasing with the decrease of temperature from 20°С to 0°C. Also, with the increase of number of loading cycles the ratio of Odqvist's parameter at 0°С and 20 °С increases significantly. Figure 2: Dependence of the strain range on the number of loading cycles in ice water at 0°С and at 20°С in the air. Figure 3: Dependence of the Odqvist’s parameter on the number of loading cycles in ice water at 0°С and at 20°С in the air. With the increasing of cycles to failure the dissipated energy per cycle decreases (Fig. 4). Experimental data in this case are well described by the logarithmic dependence W dis f WW N      (10) V. Iasnii et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 50 (2019) 310-318; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.26 315 Figure 4: Dependence of the dissipated energy on the number of loading cycles in ice water at 0°С and at 20°С in the air. The constant values W and W of the Eqn. (10) were determined by the approximation of the experimental data using the least squares method are presented in Tab. 2. T, °С W W R2 AW BW R2 Eq. (10) Eq. (13) 0 9.974 ±1.604 0.3537 ±0.0351 0.950 142.6 0.663 0.709 20 2.478 ±1.253 0.3148 ±0.092 0.949 148.4 0.0925 0.924 Table 2: Equations parameters for Ni55.8Ti44.2 alloy. In the Eqn. (10), the energy of dissipation was determined in the same way as in the previous cases at the number of half- cycles to failure. The fatigue life of the NiTi alloy increases with the decrease in test temperature when using the strain range (Fig. 2), as well as dissipated energy (Fig.4). The influence of testing temperature on accumulated dissipation energy before failure was analysed. The accumulated dissipation energy was determined by formula 1 , fN dis i i W W    (11) where Wi is the dissipated energy for i-th loading cycle. As the first approximation, the change in the area of hysteresis loop during first cycles could be neglected. In this case, the formula (11) can be rewritten as follows: ,dis fdis NW W   (12) where Wdis is the dissipated energy at mean lifetime Nf. As in the case with Odqvist's parameter, the experimental values of total dissipated energy could be described by a linearly proportional dependence on cycles to failure V. Iasnii et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 50 (2019) 310-318; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.26 316 dis W W fW A B N   (13) The parameters (Tab. 2) of the Eqn. (13) were determined by the approximation of the experimental data using the least squares method. Therefore (Fig. 5), the total dissipation energy is not constant, but increases with the increasing number of loading cycles to specimen failure. Figure 5: Dependence of the total dissipation energy on the number of loading cycles in ice water at 0°С and at 20°С in the air. The fatigue life of NiTi alloy increases with the decrease in test temperature when using the strain range (Fig. 2), as well as dissipated energy (Fig. 4). CONCLUSIONS 1. Low-cycle fatigue of pseudoelastic Ni55.8Ti44.2 shape memory alloy was studied under the uniaxial tensile deformation at temperature of 0°С and 20°С, which is above the austenite finish temperature (Af = – 38.7°С). Fatigue tests were carried out on cylindrical specimens under displacement–controlled mode at 0°С and under stress–controlled mode at 20°С. The fatigue life was described by stress, strain and energy failure criteria. 2. The fatigue life of NiTi alloy increases with the decrease of test temperature from 20°С to 0°С in the case of presenting the results depending on the strain range and dissipated energy. Nevertheless, in the case of employing the stress range, the Odqvist’s parameter or the total dissipation energy, and the lifetime of NiTi alloy under the low temperature in the medium of distilled ice water is less comparing with the room temperature. 3. Regardless the test temperature, with the increase of number of cycles to failure, the stress and strain ranges, as well as the dissipation energy decrease, and the total dissipation energy and Odqvist’s parameter increase. 4. Therefore, as in the case of traditional structural elements, the total dissipation energy of the low-cycle fatigue is not constant and increases proportionally to the increase of cycles number to failure. It is obvious, that if the energy of fatigue failure is constant, then the dissipation energy is wasted not only for the formation of fatigue damage, but also on the heating of specimen, as well as on the forward and reverse phase transformations during the cyclic loading. 5. 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