A FEM study on the mechanical responses of pseudoelastic TiNi alloys to a particle normal loads

In this study, the models of four materials including three sorts of pseudoelastic TiNi alloys and a stainless steel (as a contradistinction) enduring a particle's normal loads were individually simulated based on bilinear strain hardening law by means of finite element method. Owing to the pseudoelasticity, TiNi alloys proved to have high elastic strain limit and low pseudo-Yong's modulus, with which the special mechanical response was created under normal loads. The results shown that pseudoelastic TiNi alloys occurred plastic deformation more difficult than the stainless steel, and the critical load of plastic deformation increased with the increasing elastic strain limit and the decreasing pseudo-Young's modulus. Plastic regions of three TiNi alloys with the elastic strain limit 0.02, 0.04 and 0.06 were 0.60, 0.32, 0.047 times of that of the stainless steel, respectively. When the pseudoelastic TiNi alloys endured a particle's normal loads, the phenomena of decreasing contact stress, von Mises stress and increasing the elastic strain were also observed in this FEM study. In terms of above results, the wear mechanism of pseudoelastic TiNi alloys was discussed finally.