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Finite Strain Shape Memory Alloys Modeling - Scuola di Dottorato in ...

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( )( ) E 1 ( )Ψ = h ω β T − M + −h ω β T − M E (4.10)ch t f t c f twhere the parameters βtandβc, l<strong>in</strong>ked to the dependence of the critical stress on thetemperature, are <strong>in</strong>troduced as the thermomechanical behavior of a SMA materialresults strongly sensitive to the deformation mode. In particular, experimentalevidences show that the shape-memory materials, expecially NiTi and CuZnAlalloys, exhibit a tension-compression asymmetry <strong>in</strong> their phase transformation.In the chemical energy expression (4.11), ⋅ is the positive part of the argument,Mfis the f<strong>in</strong>ish<strong>in</strong>g temperature of the austenite-martensite phase transformation andT is the room temperature; f<strong>in</strong>ally, ⋅ represents the norm of the argument;• Ψtrrepresents the transformation stra<strong>in</strong> energy <strong>in</strong>troduced <strong>in</strong> order to accountfor the transformation-<strong>in</strong>duced harden<strong>in</strong>g:1 2Ψtr= h Et(4.11)2where h is a material parameter def<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the slope of the l<strong>in</strong>ear stress-transformationstra<strong>in</strong> relation <strong>in</strong> the uniaxial case and related to the harden<strong>in</strong>g of the material dur<strong>in</strong>gthe phase transformation;▪Ψi<strong>di</strong>s the free energy due to the change <strong>in</strong> temperature with respect to thereference state <strong>in</strong> an <strong>in</strong>compressible ideal solid:⎡T ⎤Ψid= ( uo − Tηo ) + c⎢( T −To) −Tln⎥⎣To⎦(4.12)63

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