Concept of Elastocaloric Granular Material Made from SMA Wires in Bending

Abstract:

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are promising materials for the creation of heating or cooling systems due to their elastocaloric character. The paper proposes a concept of elastocaloric “porous” SMA beam working in bending. The beam was made with superelastic nickel-titanium SMA wires of different diameters placed in a flexible tube. While water was flowing through the tube, bending was manually applied using 3D printed wavy profiles with portions of arcs with constant curvatures. Preliminary results showed an oscillation of the fluid temperature at the outlet of the flexible tube (containing the SMA wires) at the same frequency as the mechanical loading, validating therefore the concept of elastocaloric porous SMA beam operating in bending.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 1058)
• Pages: 135-140
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-rw8lfo
• Online since: April 2022
• Authors: Kunanon Jongchansitto, Pawarut Jongchansitto*, Itthichai Preechawuttipong, Xavier Balandraud
• Keywords: Bending, Elastocaloric, NiTi, Shape Memory Alloy, Wire

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