Ruggedness Evaluation of ASTM International Standard Test Methods for Shape Memory Materials: E3097 Standard Test Method for Mechanical Uniaxial Constant Force Thermal Cycling of Shape Memory Alloys

Benafan, Othmane; Bigelow, Glen S.; Wood, Leo

This paper evaluates the ruggedness testing of the newly released ASTM International E3097 Standard Test Method for Mechanical Uniaxial Constant Force Thermal Cycling of Shape Memory Alloys. The ruggedness experiment was designed with eight runs in two replicates, consisting of seven factors of strain rate (ė), heating and cooling rates (T(sub heat) and T(sub cool), respectively), upper and lower cycle temperatures (UCT and LCT, respectively), hold time (t(sub hold)), and minimum load (F(sub min)) imparted on the samples. The results indicate that the hold time factor had no effect on any result variable. The minimum load factor, alternatively, had the greatest effect on several result variables, with the greatest influence on the strains at martensite start and finish (strain variation ~0.1 percent), and the strains at the upper and lower cycle temperatures (strain variation of 0.14 percent). The UCT was found to have a large effect on the austenite and martensite finish tangent line and data intersect, denoted by A(sub f(sup *)) and M(sub f(sup*)), by ~17 and 4 °C, respectively. The testing methodology, analysis techniques, and resulting conclusions on the ruggedness of the test methods are presented.

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