Affiliations: [a] State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and
Vibration, Institute of Biomedical Manufacturing and Life Quality Engineering,
School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai,
China | Université Laval, Canada | Tohoku University, Japan
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Yun Luo, State Key Laboratory of
Mechanical System and Vibration, Institute of Biomedical Manufacturing and Life
Quality Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, 800 Dong Chuan Rd., Shanghai 200240, China. Tel.: +86 21 3420 6078;
E-mail: luoyun@sjtu.edu.cn
Abstract: Soft tissue injuries remain as problems in the application of
clamping devices due to overload. Clamping devices with constant force or
pressure is desired to solve the problem. This paper proposed a C-shaped
component using superelastic shape memory alloy (SMA) sheet to realize constant
force clamping. Optimization design of the component was carried out with
computational simulation. Numerical results show that approximately constant
force can be obtained by varying the initial shape, the end width and the end
thickness of the SMA sheet.
