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AN EXPERIMENTALLY-FITTED THERMODYNAMICAL CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR POLYCRYSTALLINE SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2021

Abstract

A phenomenological model for polycrystalline NiTi shape-memory alloys with a refined dissipation function is here enhanced by a thermomechanical coupling and rigorously analyzed as far as existence of weak solutions and numerical stability and convergence of the numerical approximation performed by a staggered time discretization. Moreover, the model is verified on one-dimensional computational simulations compared with real laboratory experiments on a NiTi wire.