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Analysis of Smart Materials
Rašner, Martin ; Lošák, Petr (referee) ; Hadaš, Zdeněk (advisor)
The bachelor's thesis "Smart Materials Analysis" deals with the description of intelligent materials in the way of usability in technical practice. At first, the research of smart materials is carried out, which is further elaborated on a detailed description of shape memory materials. In order to investigate the functionality of the material and the description of its behaviour in terms of non-linear oscillation, a simplified model is proposed. The practical part deals with the application of passive damping of Nitinol. The solution is accomplished by modelling program MATLAB / Simulink.
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Magnetic shape memory alloys - ab initio approach
Heczko, Martin ; Šesták, Petr (referee) ; Zelený, Martin (advisor)
This Bachelor’s thesis is focused on theoretical study of magnetic shape memory alloys based on Ni2MnGa using ab initio calculations of electronic structure within the projector augmented wave method. In particular, the effect of increasing concertation of manganese instead of gallium was studied on total-energy and magnetic moment profiles along the tetragonal deformation path between austenite phase with cubic L21 structure and phase of nonmodulated martensite. Further, the effect of manganese atoms distribution within the gallium sublattice was studied as well as changes of this distribution under applied tetragonal deformation. At last but not at least, the elastic constants for austenitic and martensitic structures of studied alloys were calculated. The results show that the non-modulated martensite stabilized with increasing concentration of manganese, because its total energy decreased. The energetic barrier between austenitic and martensitic structures also decreased, which means the metastable austenite will change to unstable.
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Investigation of Functional Properties of Thin NiTi Filaments for Applications in Smart Structures and Hybrid Textiles
Pilch, Jan ; Dlouhý, Antonín (referee) ; Heczko,, Oleg (referee) ; Pokluda, Jaroslav (advisor)
PhD thesis focuses the field of textile application of modern functional materials, namely metallic shape memory alloys with unique thermomechanical properties deriving from martensitic transformation in solid state. Particularly, it deals with the development of a nonconventional thermomechanical treatment of thin NiTi filaments via Joule heating by electric current and related basic research involving thermomechanical testing and modeling of functional properties of the filaments, investigation of martensitic transformations and deformation processes in NiTi and investigation of the fast recovery and recrystallization processes in metals heated by short pulses of controlled electric power. The method was developed and called FTMT-EC. In contrast to conventional heat treatment of metallic filaments in environmental furnaces, this method allows for precise control of the raise of the filament temperature and filament stress during the fast heating (rate ~50 000 °C/s). As a consequence, it is possible to precisely control the progress of the fast recovery and recrystallization processes in heat treated filaments. In this way it is possible to prepare filaments with desired nanostructured microstructure and related functional properties. A prototype equipment for application of the method for heat treatment of continuous SMA filaments during respooling in textile processing was designed and built. Comparing to the conventional heat treatment of SMA filaments in tubular environmental furnaces, this approach is faster, saves energy and allows for preparation of filaments with special functional properties. International patent application was filed on the method. It is currently utilized in the research and development of smart textiles for medical applications.
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Ab initio calculations of the phase stability in Ni-Mn-Ga alloys
Pongrácz, Jakub ; Šesták, Petr (referee) ; Zelený, Martin (advisor)
This thesis deals with theoretical study of magnetic shape memory alloy based on Ni2MnGa with help of ab initio calculations of electronic structure within the projector augmented wave method. In particular the effect of Co- and Cu-doping is studied on total-energy profile along the tetragonal deformation path between austenite phase with cubic L21 structure and phase of nonmodulated martensite. Obtained results are used for estimation of doping influence on martensitic transformation temperature. Transformation temperature increases in the alloy doped by 3.125 at. % of copper instead of gallium whereas transformation temperature decreases in the alloy doped by 3.125 at. % of cobalt instead of nickel. If both type of doping are used the transformation temperature increases slightly because the effect of copper is stronger. Comparison of results from this work with available results obtained with help of the coherent potential approximation shows that a local lattice distortion around doping atom has negligible effect on studied properties.
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Low cycle fatigue of pseudoelastic NiTi alloy
Kaňová, Monika ; Hutař, Pavel (referee) ; Pantělejev, Libor (advisor)
This work is focused on study of mechanical properties of NiTi alloy which shows pseudoelastic and shape memory behaviour. Functional and structural fatigue of the material is examined. The main aim of this work was to perform and to evaluate a series of fatigue tests. The material was supplied in the form of wire which was gripped in the machine using special grips. In the first part of the experiment, tensile tests are evaluated and the reproducibility of measurements is demonstrated. Then, a series of cyclic tests was performed. Results were analysed together with previous measurements. One part of discussion concerned changes of the hysteresis loops during cycling and their dependence on strain rate. The fatigue life curves were plotted. It was found that these curves have non-standard shapes. The reasons for this are explained in the work.
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Influence of Fe substitutions on tranformation temperatures in Ni2MnGa alloys
Drastichová, Kristýna ; Klicpera, Milan (advisor) ; Prchal, Jiří (referee)
In this bachelor thesis we are interested in studying the properties of Ni2MnGa alloy and their development with the other element substitution, for example with iron. Overally, we were studying five samples with four different compositions described by the formula Ni50Mn 25Ga25-xFex where the concentration of iron was in the interval . Consequently we performed on the prepared single crystals an extensive characterization by the methods of x-ray and electron diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry and dilatometry. Special emphasis was devoted to measuring the magnetization with vibrational magnetometer. The obtained data enabled us to confirm the quality of the prepared single crystals and to observe a development of Ni2MnGa properties, especially the temperatures of the phase transformations.
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Magnetic shape memory alloys: Effects of doping with Cu and Fe
Kancko, Andrej ; Colman, Ross Harvey (advisor) ; Uhlířová, Klára (referee)
In this thesis, the focus is set on studying the properties of Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape memory (MSM) alloys, ferromagnetic Heusler compounds, codoped with Fe and Cu. Codoping Ni-Mn-Ga MSM alloys with Fe and Cu had previously been studied due to a synergy in increasing the martensitic transformation temperature - a key parameter for practical applications of the magnetic shape memory effect. We present the preparation process of five Ni-Mn-Ga-Fe-Cu single crystals using the optical floating zone method, as well as the analysis of their composition, crystal structure and magnetic properties, performed following the growth. The results obtained from our single crystals were finally compared with the data from the previously studied polycrystalline Ni-Mn-Ga-Fe-Cu alloys, showing similar trends in increasing the martensitic transformation temperature, the Curie temperature and the saturation magnetisation.
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Application of the spectral method to the simulation of the phase-field model for martensitic transformation
Sejková, Klára ; Tůma, Karel (advisor) ; Kružík, Martin (referee)
For some alloys martensitic transformation is responsible for the so-called shape memory effect and pseudoelasticity. These properties are used in a wide range of industry applications. Each of these materials is transformed to the shape it was manufactured in when heated to its critical temperature (austenite phase) no matter how seriously it was deformed at lower temperatures (martensite phase). Looking at the microstructure, one can observe significant change of crystalographic lattice depending on temperature and deformation. This the- sis focuses on modelling the evolution of microstructure during deformation for materials in the martensite phase. In this case, the creation of multiple variants of martensite is observed, divided by interfaces where a part of energy is stored. This behaviour can be described by the phase-field model. The numerical im- plementation of this model using the standard finite element method requires large computational costs. The aim of this thesis is to implement this model in MATLAB using a spectral method based on the fast Fourier transform, which is suitable for solving problems on a periodic domain. It is interesting to com- pare the computation using spectral method on a conventional PC with the computation written in FEniCS computed on a cluster. However, the...
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Magnetic shape memory alloys - ab initio approach
Heczko, Martin ; Šesták, Petr (referee) ; Zelený, Martin (advisor)
This Bachelor’s thesis is focused on theoretical study of magnetic shape memory alloys based on Ni2MnGa using ab initio calculations of electronic structure within the projector augmented wave method. In particular, the effect of increasing concertation of manganese instead of gallium was studied on total-energy and magnetic moment profiles along the tetragonal deformation path between austenite phase with cubic L21 structure and phase of nonmodulated martensite. Further, the effect of manganese atoms distribution within the gallium sublattice was studied as well as changes of this distribution under applied tetragonal deformation. At last but not at least, the elastic constants for austenitic and martensitic structures of studied alloys were calculated. The results show that the non-modulated martensite stabilized with increasing concentration of manganese, because its total energy decreased. The energetic barrier between austenitic and martensitic structures also decreased, which means the metastable austenite will change to unstable.
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AGEING OF BINARY Ti-Ni ALLOY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON TRANSFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS
Szurman, I. ; Kursa, M. ; Petlák, D. ; Dlouhý, Antonín
Transformation temperatures of binary alloys from Ti-Ni system are highly sensitive to chemical composition of the alloy. This sensitivity, however, causes rather considerable complications already during process of preparation. Transformation temperatures of bays rich in Ni can be successfully modified. The key to modification of transformation temperatures lies in use of precipitation reaction of quenched over-saturated solution for influencing of composition of TiNi matrix and thus to precise control of transformation temperatures. Principle of this method consists in metastable balance between intermetallic phase TiNi and coherent precipitates Ti3Ni4. Although the precipitate Ti3Ni4 is considered to be metastable in comparison with TiNi3, it is highly stable at temperatures below 600 degrees C. During precipitation reaction Ti3Ni4 is formed and this phenomenon is connected with decrease of Ni content in TiNi matrix, which leads to increased temperatures of phase transformations TR (temperature of formation of R-phase) and Ms (temperature 'martensite start'). It is important that transformation temperature after long-term ageing is independent on chemical composition of the alloy, and it depends only on temperature of ageing as a consequence of equilibrium between these phases. This phenomenon should not occur at ageing at higher temperatures, formation of precipitate Ti3Ni4 should occur only during cooling of the sample from the temperature of ageing. The alloy Ni50.6-Ti (at. %), prepared in high-frequency induction vacuum furnace, was chosen as experimental material. Samples of the alloy were sealed into evacuated quartz glass tube and aged at constant temperature with various durations of dwell. Afterwards transformation characteristics of the samples were determined by DSC method.
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