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Use the Force: Review of High-Rate Actuation of Shape Memory Alloys
by Asaf Dana, Shahaf Vollach and Doron Shilo
Actuators 2021, 10(7), 140; https://doi.org/10.3390/act10070140 - 24 Jun 2021
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Typical shape memory alloy actuators provide a unique combination of large stresses and strains that result in work-per-volume larger by more than two orders of magnitude than all other actuation methods that are based on active materials. High-rate actuation of shape memory alloys [...] Read more.
Typical shape memory alloy actuators provide a unique combination of large stresses and strains that result in work-per-volume larger by more than two orders of magnitude than all other actuation methods that are based on active materials. High-rate actuation of shape memory alloys can provide improved energy efficiency, and shorter response and total actuation times, along with large travel-per-wire-length, with respect to slow-rate SMA applications. In this article, we review the different aspects of high-rate actuation of shape memory alloy wires in the high-driving-force regime. We briefly survey previous experimental results about the kinetics and thermodynamics of the phase transformation in view of its practical implications. New experimental results, regarding energy efficiency, total actuation time, repeatability, and fatigue, are presented and discussed. The paper provides general design guidelines for obtaining high actuator performance, as well as guidelines for selecting the source of the electric pulse and its parameters. Finally, we construct and solve detailed simulations of actuator response that can serve as accurate design tools. Full article
(This article belongs to the Section Actuator Materials)
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