Thermo-Mechanical Numerical Analysis of Transformation-Induced Stress Relaxation During Pseudoelastic Behavior of SMA

Abstract

A stress relaxation phenomenon is observed by coupled thermo-mechanical numerical analysis of SMA subjected to uniaxial test. The thermo-mechanical coupling is realized in the partitioned approach. The software components for the structural analysis (PAKS) and the heat transfer (PAKT) based on the Finite Element Method (FEM) have been used. The latent heat production is correlated with the amount of the martensitic volume fraction. The thermo-mechanical numerical analysis of a belt type specimen has been investigated for the strain controlled loading with the break during the martensitic transformation. The thermally induced martensitic transformation induced the significant stress change during the loading break what was expected according to the experimental results from literature.