TY - JOUR
AU - Reedlunn, Benjamin
AB - Conventional structural cables (or wire ropes) are composed of steel wires helically wound into strands, which, in turn, are wound around a core. Cables made from shape memory alloy (SMA) wires are a new structural element with promising properties for a broad range of new applications. Among the many potential advantages of this form are increased bending flexibility for spooling/packaging, better fatigue performance, energy absorption and damping, reduced thermal lag, redundancy, and signicant design flexibility. Currently there are no known studies of SMA cables in the literature, so exploratory thermo-mechanical experiments were performed on two commercially available cable designs as part of an ongoing research program to systematically characterize their thermomechanical behavior and demonstrate their potential utility as adaptive or resilient tension elements.
TI - Shape memory alloy cables
JF - Proceedings of SPIE
DO - 10.1117/12.778791
DA - 2008-03-27
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/spie/shape-memory-alloy-cables-1cYCleucLn
SP - 69291G
EP - 69291G-11
VL - 6929
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -