Uniaxial Loading of a Shape Memory Alloy

Application ID: 54871


The model includes a compilation of benchmark examples included in the text book:

Shape Memory Alloys: Modeling and Engineering Applications. D. Lagoudas Ed. Springer 2008.

The model shows the thermomechanical properties of a NiTi alloy sample subjected to uniaxial tension-compression loading.

The first parametric study displays the pseudoelasticity effect at different temperatures. In the second study a partial loading-unloading cycle is added. The third study shows the shape memory effect in a low-temperature loading cycle followed by a temperature increase.

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