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The effect of porosity on thermal conductivity of the porous NiTi SMA fabricated by SHS

MEHMET KAYA1,* , ABDULCELIL BUĞUTEKIN1, NURI ORHAN2

Affiliation

  1. Vocational School, Adiyaman University, 02040 Adiyaman,Turkey
  2. Metal Department, Technical Education Faculty, Firat University, 23119 Elazig, Turkey

Abstract

In this study, porous NiTi shape memory aslloy (SMA) was obtained by self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) of compacts prepared from elemental nickel and titanium powders and the effect of the porosity on the pore morphologies, microstructures and thermal conductivity of products synthesised after different cold compaction pressed was examined. The porosity in the synthesised products was in the range of 55.6–59.2 vol.%, with the green porosity being the primary source of final porosity. Green porosity (in other words cold compaction pressure) was found to have an effect on porosity, pore morphology of the synthesised products. Also, it was found that the thermal conductivity of the synthesised products increased with decreasing porosity.

Keywords

Porous NiTi, Thermal conductivity, Fourier law, Shape memory alloy.

Citation

MEHMET KAYA, ABDULCELIL BUĞUTEKIN, NURI ORHAN, The effect of porosity on thermal conductivity of the porous NiTi SMA fabricated by SHS, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 4, 8, August 2010, pp.1250-1255 (2010).

Submitted at: May 30, 2010

Accepted at: Aug. 12, 2010