MEASUREMENTS OF SMA PROPERTIES USING ADVANCED OPTICAL METHODS

Abstract

Shape Memory Alloys are called smart or advanced materials because of their special features which are very useful in the latest solutions. Therefore, it is very important to gain a good knowledge of all these features for the purposes of modeling, describing, and ultimately controlling the behavior of these materials. This paper describes how to measure selected properties of SMA. It describes how to measure real temperature and diameter of thin SMA wires. At the end, we use a high speed camera to find out how an SMA wire breaks during stretching.