Project Title:
Dynamic Behavior and Shock Absorption Properties of Porous Shape Memory Alloys

Project Description:
The objectives of the project are:

To investigate different fabrication techniques for producing porous NiTi shape memory alloy.

To study the constitutive characteristics of porous SMAs as related to the energy dissipation during the forward and reverse phase transformations under impact loading - shock absorption properties of SMAs.

To design and perform impact experiments on porous SMA rods, and to correlate theoretical predictions with experimental measurements on energy dissipation.
To investigate the effect of making SMAs in porous form on enhancing it's damping capacity.
To develop micromechanical model to characterize the thermomechanical response of porous shape memory alloys.

People Involved with Porous SMAs:
Luke Penrod
Pavlin Entchev
Darren Hartl