Modeling and numerical simulations of shape memory alloys

• Main Author: Gao, Xiangyang
• Other Authors: Huang, Weimin
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Metallic materials::Alloys
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/5730
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The aim of this project is to develop a simple 3-D Shape Memory alloy (SMA) model that can be easily adopted by commercially available finite element packages, for instance, ANSYS. A modified micro-mechanical model is developed to investigate the yield surfaces (transformation start stress) of SMAs.