Abstract
AbstractThis study presents experimental results on the effect of loading frequency during low‐cycle fatigue on the fracture mechanism and properties of pseudoelastic NiTi wire. The uniaxial tensile tests were performed in stress‐controlled mode over the 0.1–10 Hz frequency range. It was shown that the number of cycles before specimen failure decreased with increasing frequency from 0.1 Hz to 1 Hz but increased at frequencies above 1 Hz. It was fractographically shown that fatigue striations were observed on the fracture surfaces of specimens tested at all loading frequencies. A new type of fatigue striations was described on fracture specimens tested at frequencies up to 1 Hz. They are characterized by different spacing between successive striations with a change in the slope of the fracture at the transitions between them. This feature may be associated with forward and reverse phase transformations during half‐periods of loading and unloading of nitinol.
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