×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

nitinol material data in sw?

nitinol material data in sw?

nitinol material data in sw?

(OP)
I've been modeling a part in sw that might be best with nitinol- I'd like to use cosmos as a reference but I can't find nitinols material data anywhere...anybody got any ideas?  

RE: nitinol material data in sw?

Depending on what you are trying to do, you aren't likely to find much information around on nitinol. Most of the actual formulations are either proprietary or well guarded. Since the percentages of the constituents as well as any processing completely changes the properties of the material, any material data you get will probably not really work if you are trying any sort of FEA analysis. If you are just looking for density and weight calculations in SW, then matweb should be sufficient.

RE: nitinol material data in sw?

Nitinol's modulus of elasticity is highly nonlinear.  I don't think you'll be able to use the data on matweb for any meaningful analysis.  Depending on which Cosmos package you have it may not handle non-linear material properties even if you knew them.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources