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Composite beams with shape memory alloy fibres

  1. Mieczysław S. Kuczma*

Article first published online: 13 DEC 2004

DOI: 10.1002/pamm.200410253

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Volume 4, Issue 1, pages 544–545, December 2004

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Kuczma, M. S. (2004), Composite beams with shape memory alloy fibres. Proc. Appl. Math. Mech., 4: 544–545. doi: 10.1002/pamm.200410253

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  1. Institute of Structural Engineering, University of Zielona Góra, ul. Podgórna 50, 65-264 Zielona Góra, Poland

*Phone: +00 48 68 3282271, Fax: +00 48 68 3247292

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  1. Issue published online: 13 DEC 2004
  2. Article first published online: 13 DEC 2004

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Abstract

We are concerned with the bending problem of fibrous composite beams in which fibres are made of shape memory alloys. These are alloys that may undergo a stress-induced martensitic phase transformation. The matrix is treated as an elastic medium, and perfect bonding between matrix and fibres is supposed. In our model, the beam is decomposed into layers and the hysteretic behaviour of the shape memory fibres is taken into account. The boundary value problem is formulated in the form of an evolution variational inequality which, after finite element discretization, can be solved incrementally as a sequence of linear complementarity problems. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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