Date of Award
Spring 2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Mechanical Engineering
First Advisor
Moore, John A.
Second Advisor
Murray, Allison
Third Advisor
Zhou, Le
Abstract
Energy dissipation is an important material property for materials used inapplications such as armor, airplane wings, and automotive vehicle crumple zones. superelastic Nickel-Titanium (NiTi) and compliant under-dense materials both have excellent energy dissipation properties. Current research suggests that compliant underdense materials made of superelastic NiTi have desirable energy dissipation properties. A rhombic dodecahedron Lattice Structured Material (LSM) is an example of a compliant under-dense Material which has potential to exhibit desirable energy dissipation properties when manufactured from superelastic NiTi. In this work, finite element modeling of a superelastic NiTi rhombic dodecahedron Lattice Structured Material is performed and an optimum for energy dissipation based solely on geometric modification is found.