Finite Element Analysis on the Cyclic Properties （有限元分析的循环性能）.pdf

Finite Element Analysis on the Cyclic Properties of Superelastic Nitinol Nuno Rebelo*, Xiao-Yan Gong**, Amy Hall***, Alan R. Pelton** and Tom W. Duerig** *Abaqus West, 39221 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite #F, Fremont, California 94538 **Nitinol Devices Components, 47533 Westinghouse Drive, Fremont, CA 94539 ***California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Abstract: Recent cyclic tests on superelastic Nitinol tubing revealed that material’s mechanical property quickly stabilized after several tens of cycl e counts. The stabilized material’s response is drastically different from the original material response. This paper presents the experimental discoveries and Finite Element Analyses (FEA) using ABAQUS to simulate the stabilized material response. The results show that the stabilized complex nonlinear mechanical response of Nitinol can be modeled very effectively and accurately using Abaqus with the new “Direct Cycling” method. 1. Introduction The successful medical applications of Nitinol implants such as filters and stents demand better understanding on Nitinol’s cyclic behaviors. Strain-life approach has been adopted as the quickest phenomenological approach to predict the device safety. The key to this approach is to establish the constant life diagram using engineered fatigue samples that mimic the loading conditions an implant is subjected to in-vivo. Pelton et al (2003) performed such testing on diamond-shaped specimens specific to the Nitinol implants under in-vivo pulsatile loading conditions. Their results showed, in bending, at mean strains range from 2% to 4%, Nitinol’s fatigue endurance limit increases when mean strain increases