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11 July 2002 Fabrication of TiNi/CFRP smart composite using cold drawn TiNi wires
Ya Xu, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Nobuyuki Toyama, Hitoshi Yoshida, Byung-Koog Jang, Hideki Nagai, Ryutaro Oishi, Teruo Kishi
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Abstract
In recent years, pre-strained TiNi shape memory alloys (SMA) have been used for fabricating smart structure with carbon fibers reinforced plastics (CFRP) in order to suppress microscopic mechanical damages. However, since the cure temperature of CFRP is higher than the reverse transformation temperatures of TiNi SMA, special fixture jigs have to be used for keeping the pre-strain during fabrication, which restricted its practical application. In order to overcome this difficulty, we developed a new method to fabricate SMA/CFRP smart composites without using special fixture jigs by controlling the transformation temperatures of SMA during fabrication. This method consists of using heavily cold-worked wires to increase the reverse transformation temperatures, and of using flash electrical heating of the wires after fabrication in order to decrease the reverse transformation temperatures to a lower temperature range again without damaging the epoxy resin around SMA wires. By choosing proper cold-working rate and composition of TiNi alloys, the reverse transformation temperatures were well controlled, and the TiNi/CFRP hybrid smart composite was fabricated without using special fixture jigs. The damage suppressing effect of cold drawn wires embedded in CFRP was confirmed.
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Ya Xu, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Nobuyuki Toyama, Hitoshi Yoshida, Byung-Koog Jang, Hideki Nagai, Ryutaro Oishi, and Teruo Kishi "Fabrication of TiNi/CFRP smart composite using cold drawn TiNi wires", Proc. SPIE 4699, Smart Structures and Materials 2002: Active Materials: Behavior and Mechanics, (11 July 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.475014
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KEYWORDS
Composites

Temperature metrology

Shape memory alloys

Epoxies

Carbon

Annealing

Scanning electron microscopy

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