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| Enhancing Bending Fatigue Life of NiTi Alloy Cantilever Beam via Gradient Nanocrystallites |
| HUANG Kai1,*, DENG Zhongzheng2, YIN Hao1
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1 School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China 2 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 999077, China |
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Abstract Bending is one of the most widely used loading modes of NiTi alloys in application fields. However, the poor cyclic stability and low fatigue life under large deformation bending conditions greatly limit its application range. In this work, NiTi plates with different grain size-gradient distributions through nanotechnology were fabricated. Multi-field synchronous bending experiments of cantilever beams were conducted at two deflection amplitudes. The influence mechanism of grain size-gradient on bending fatigue life was discussed through analysis on microstructure and stress of different layers. The results demonstrate that the bending fatigue life greatly increases by the nanoscaled grain size-gradient along the thickness direction, reaching over 2 million cycles at a 2 mm deflection—more than 20 times longer than other types (the highest value reported to date). The axial residual compressive stress of high-distortion nanocrystallites reduces the tensile stress of the upper surface as loading, lowe-ring the local strain gradient of martensitic transformation. The nanoscale arrangement of dislocation barriers at the surface impedes the interactive aggregation of the phase transition-activated dislocations and retaines plastic bands towards the surface layer, reducing the nucleation ratio of defects and microcracks. This gradient nanocrystallites has achieved significant advancements in enhancing the bending fatigue life of NiTi alloy, presenting a feasible case for broadening the application range of NiTi alloy under bending loads.
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Published: 25 December 2025
Online: 2025-12-17
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