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<strong>BULETINUL</strong> <strong>INSTITUTULUI</strong> <strong>POLITEHNIC</strong> <strong>DIN</strong> <strong>IAŞI</strong><br />

Publicat de<br />

<strong>Universitatea</strong> Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iaşi<br />

Tomul LVI (LX), Fasc. 2, 2010<br />

Secţia<br />

CONSTRUCŢII DE MAŞINI<br />

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF A<br />

BIMETALLIC STRIP THERMOSTAT<br />

BY<br />

DĂNUŢ ZAHARIEA and MARIUS STACHIE<br />

Abstract. In this paper the structural analysis of a bimetallic strip will be<br />

analyzed using CATIA Generative Structural Analysis workbench. The structural<br />

analysis procedure will be presented. Six different bimetallic strips have been<br />

considered with titanium as active layer and zinc, aluminum, bronze, brass, copper<br />

and steel as passive layer. The numerical analysis has been performed under the<br />

same global conditions (geometrical characteristics, restraints and thermal load)<br />

using two variable parameters: the width and the length of the beams. For all these<br />

study cases only the thermal load generated by an imposed temperature field has<br />

been considered. Charts are presented for comparative analysis of the influence of<br />

the material, the width and the length of the beams on the von Misses stress and<br />

the maximum deflection.<br />

Key words: thermostat, bimetallic strip, structural analysis, CATIA.<br />

1. Introduction<br />

The bimetallic springs used as sensitive elements of the thermostats are<br />

made by two beams of rectangular cross section bounded together. The two<br />

beams are made of materials with different coefficients of thermal expansion,<br />

α a > α p . Under a uniform temperature field Δ T the bimetallic strip will curve<br />

toward the passive material (the material with lower coefficient of thermal<br />

expansion). The sensitivity of the bimetallic strip will be better as long the<br />

difference α a − α p will be higher. In this paper, the materials used are: titanium<br />

as passive layer and zinc, aluminum, bronze, brass, copper and steel as passive<br />

layer. Characteristics of materials relevant for the analysis are shown in Table 1.<br />

The main geometric characteristics of the bimetallic strip are shown in Fig. 1.

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