Superelastic SMA U-shaped dampers with self-centering functions

• Published in: Smart materials and structures Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 55003 - 55016
• Main Authors: Wang, Bin, Zhu, Songye
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 01.05.2018
• Subjects: flag-shaped hysteresis loop; seismic resilience; self-centering; shape memory alloy; strain rate; superelastic

As high-performance metallic materials, shape memory alloys (SMAs) have been investigated increasingly by the earthquake engineering community in recent years, because of their remarkable self-centering (SC) and energy-dissipating capabilities. This paper systematically presents an experimental stud...