Understanding the thermodynamic properties of the elastocaloric effect through experimentation and modelling

Tušek, Jaka (author), Engelbrecht, Kurt (author), Mañosa, Lluís (author), Vives, Eduard (author), Pryds, Nini (author)

This paper presents direct and indirect methods for studying the elastocaloric effect (eCE) in shape memory materials and its comparison. The eCE can be characterized by the adiabatic temperature change or the isothermal entropy change (both as a function of applied stress/strain). To get these quantities, the evaluation of the eCE can be done using either direct methods, where one measures (adiabatic) temperature changes or indirect methods where one can measure the stress-strain-temperature characteristics of the materials and from these deduce the adiabatic temperature and isothermal entropy changes. The former can be done using the basic thermodynamic relations, i.e. Maxwell relation and Clausius-Clapeyron equation. This paper further presents basic thermodynamic properties of shape memory materials, such as the adiabatic temperature change, isothermal entropy change and total entropy-temperature diagrams (all as a function of temperature and applied stress/strain) of two groups of materials (NiTi and CuZnAl alloys) obtained using indirect methods through phenomenological modelling and Maxwell relation. In the last part of the paper, the basic definition of the efficiency of the elastocaloric thermodynamic cycle (coefficient of performance) is defined and discussed.

• Language: English
• Keywords: elastocaloric effect, shape memory alloy, superelasticity, adiabatic temperature change, isothermal entropy change, COP
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 28.11.2016
• Year: 2016
• Number of pages: Str. 317-329
• Numbering: Vol. 2, iss. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-126688
• UDC: 697:621.577(045)
• ISSN on article: Y508-7058
• DOI: 10.1007/s40830-016-0094-8
• COBISS.SI-ID: 15128091
• Publication date in RUL: 04.05.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Shape memory and superelasticity
• Publisher: Springer
• COBISS.SI-ID: 15127835

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 28.11.2016

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: elektrokalorični učinek, zlitine z oblikovnim spominom, superelastičnost