UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS OF A ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY THERMOMECHANICAL DESCRIPTION

The use of shape memory alloys (SMAs) in engineering applications has increased the interest of the accuracy analysis of their thermomechanical description. This work presents an uncertainty analysis related to experimental tensile tests conducted with shape memory alloy wires. Experimental data are compared with numerical simulations obtained from a constitutive model with internal constraints employed to describe the thermomechanical behavior of SMAs. The idea is to evaluate if the numerical simulations are within the uncertainty range of the experimental data. Parametric analysis is also developed showing the most sensitive constitutive parameters that contribute to the uncertainty. This analysis provides the contribution of each parameter establishing the accuracy of the constitutive equations.