SMA Constitutive modeling and analysis of plates and composite laminates

The study of polycrystalline shape memory alloys (SMAs) has been a scientific research topic of the utmost importance during the last 5 decades. The mathematical modeling of the very special thermomechanical response of SMAs represent an important issue for designing new applications and performing virtual testing of SMA devices. Literature devoted to the subject of modeling the pseudoelasticity (PE), the shape memory effect (SME), and the two-way effect (TWE) has reached considerable dimensions. Several approaches have been proposed in literature for modeling the SMA behavior which will be discussed in this chaper