Liu Bingfei, Dui Guansuo, Zhu Yuping

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.17, No.3, pp. 73-74, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.017.073

Abstract Several constitutive models with different yield functions for porous shape memory alloy (SMA) are compared with the experimental date. Different approaches such as upper bound theory and lower bound theory have been adopted and a new correction formula of the yield function is proposed in this work to study the behavior of porous SMAs. Numerical results are compared with the experimental date by Zhao et al (2005). It shows that the researches using upper bound and lower bound are nearly the same and the new correction formula is much closer to the experimental data than More >

Bingfei Liu¹, Guansuo Dui^1,2, Yuping Zhu³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.78, No.3&4, pp. 247-276, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2011.078.247

Abstract A constitutive model considering the effect hydrostatic stresses induced by porosity on the macroscopic behavior of porous Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) is developed in this paper. First, a unit-cell model is adopted to establish the constitutive relations for the porous SMAs with SMA matrix and the porosity taken to be voids. Dilatational plasticity theory is then generalized for the SMA matrix. Based on an approximation of the velocity field and the upper bound theory, an explicit yield function for the porous SMA is derived from micromechanical considerations. Finally, an example for the uniaxial response under More >

K. Hashiguchi¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.4, No.4, pp. 257-264, 2007, DOI:10.3970/icces.2007.004.257

Abstract General corotational rate of tensors in arbitrary order having the objectivity is shown first, and then it is verified that the material-derivative of yield condition can be replaced generally to the corotational derivative, i.e. the consistency condition. More >

K. Hashiguchi¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 55-62, 2007, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2007.017.055

Abstract Constitutive equation describing the mechanical properties of material has to be formulated in an identical form independent of coordinate systems by which it is described even if there exist any mutual configuration and/or mutual rotation between the material and coordinate systems. This mechanical requirement is attained by describing rate variables as corotational rate tensors with objectivity in constitutive equations in rate form. Besides, in order to use the material-time derivative of yield condition as a consistency condition it has to be replaced to the corotational derivative. In this note a general corotational rate for tensors More >