Robotic artificial muscles: Current progress and future perspectives

J Zhang, J Sheng, CT O'Neill, CJ Walsh… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic artificial muscles are a subset of artificial muscles that are capable of producing
biologically inspired motions useful for robot systems, ie, large power-to-weight ratios …

On the coupling between martensitic transformation and plasticity in NiTi: Experiments and continuum based modelling

P Šittner, P Sedlák, H Seiner, P Sedmák, J Pilch… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent macroscopic experimental and theoretical evidence on the stress-strain-temperature
behavior of NiTi beyond the strain recoverability limits (large strain, high stress, high …

Superelasticity degradation of NiTi shape memory alloy in wide ranges of temperature and loading level: Experimental observation and micromechanical constitutive …

D Song, C Yu, C Zhang, G Kang - International Journal of Plasticity, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, cyclic tension-unloading tests with different peak strains (10%-18%) in the
temperature range from 313 K to 393 K are performed to investigate the effects of …

A survey on actuators-driven surgical robots

HM Le, TN Do, SJ Phee - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2016 - Elsevier
Robot-assisted surgeries have been integrated and leading to a paradigm shift in surgical
fields. With the emergence of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), especially Natural Orifice …

[HTML][HTML] Superelastic response and damping behavior of additively manufactured Nitinol architectured materials

Z Yan, JN Zhu, E Borisov, T Riemslag, SP Scott… - Additive …, 2023 - Elsevier
In energy absorption applications, architectured metallic materials generally suffer from
unrecoverable deformation as a result of local yield damage or inelastic buckling. Nitinol …

NiTi‐based elastocaloric cooling on the macroscale: From basic concepts to realization

SM Kirsch, F Welsch, N Michaelis, M Schmidt… - Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Solid‐state cooling is an environmentally friendly, no global warming potential alternative to
vapor compression‐based systems. Elastocaloric cooling based on NiTi shape memory …

Deformation physics of shape memory alloys–fundamentals at atomistic frontier

P Chowdhury, H Sehitoglu - Progress in Materials Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Application spectrum of shape memory alloys (SMA) is expanding rapidly and
proportionately so is the engineering demand for superior materials. An essential …

SLM additive manufacturing of NiTi porous implants: a review of constitutive models, finite element simulations, manufacturing, heat treatment, mechanical, and …

M Jalali, K Mohammadi, MR Movahhedy… - Metals and Materials …, 2023 - Springer
Nitinol shape memory alloy is a biocompatible material that is suitable for biomedical
applications due to its superelasticity, shape memory effect, good corrosion and fatigue …

Phase field study on the microscopic mechanism of grain size dependent cyclic degradation of super-elasticity and shape memory effect in nano-polycrystalline NiTi …

B Xu, C Yu, G Kang - International Journal of Plasticity, 2021 - Elsevier
A non-isothermal and crystal plasticity based phase field model was established by
incorporating various inelastic deformation mechanisms, ie, martensite transformation …

From mechanical behavior and elastocaloric effect to microscopic mechanisms of gradient-structured NiTi alloy: A phase-field study

Q Zhang, J Chen, G Fang - International Journal of Plasticity, 2023 - Elsevier
The introduction of gradient structure has been recently reported as a practical way to tailor
the mechanical behavior of NiTi alloy while improving its elastocaloric effect simultaneously …