Abstract
The damping characteristics of an Ni–Ti shape memory alloy (SMA) beam are theoretically and experimentally studied with interest in identifying an appropriate damping model for the material. The SMA beam is manufactured by a spray deposition method followed by heat treatment and found to have nanocrystalline structure in which damping capacity is high. The beam is then tested to obtain an impulse response and the frequency response function (FRF). By using the Hilbert transform technique it is shown that damping of the beam is almost amplitude independent in the tested range of displacement. It is also shown from the FRF that the damping of the spray-deposited shape memory alloy beam is well represented by a model including both linear viscous and hysteretic dampings.
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