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Overcoming fatigue through compression for advanced elastocaloric cooling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2018

Huilong Hou
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, USA; [email protected]
Jun Cui
Affiliation:
Iowa State University, and Ames Laboratory, USA; [email protected]
Suxin Qian
Affiliation:
Department of Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China; [email protected]
David Catalini
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, USA; [email protected]
Yunho Hwang
Affiliation:
Center for Environmental Energy Engineering, University of Maryland, USA; [email protected]
Reinhard Radermacher
Affiliation:
Center for Environmental Energy Engineering, University of Maryland, USA; [email protected]
Ichiro Takeuchi
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, USA; [email protected]
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Abstract

Elastocaloric materials exhibit extraordinary cooling potential, but the repetition of cyclic mechanical loadings during long-term operation of cooling systems requires the refrigerant material to have long fatigue life. This article reviews the fundamental cause of fatigue from aspects of initiation and propagation of fatigue cracks in shape-memory alloys (SMAs) that are used as elastocaloric materials, and highlights recent advances in using compression to overcome fatigue by curtailing the generation of surfaces associated with crack propagation. Compression is identified as a key means to extend fatigue lifetime in engineering design of elastocaloric cooling drive mechanisms. We summarize the state-of-the-art performance of different SMAs as elastocaloric materials and discuss the influence of low cyclic strains and high resistance to transformation. We present integration of compression-based material assemblies into a cooling system prototype and optimization of the system efficiency using work recovery and related measures.

Type
Caloric Effects in Ferroic Materials
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2018 

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