Yuval Freed and Jacob Aboudi 2008 Smart Mater. Struct. 17 015046 doi:10.1088/0964-1726/17/1/015046
Yuval Freed1 and Jacob Aboudi
Show affiliationsAlthough concrete is an extremely popular material in the building industry, it is very weak in tension, as compared to its strength in compression. Smart prestressing of concrete with shape memory alloy fibers is a promising solution to this limitation. To this end, already stretched shape memory alloy fibers are embedded in a concrete matrix at a relatively low temperature which corresponds to that of the shape memory effect. Upon heating (activating) the resulting composite, the shape memory alloy fibers regain their original shape, and compressive stresses are transmitted to the concrete. In the present study, a robust micromechanical framework is proposed to analyze the concrete that has been prestressed by shape memory alloy fibers. The offered methodology accounts for the evolution of plastic strains in the concrete phase, in addition to the coupled evolving damage. Initial yield surfaces of the SMA/concrete composite are obtained for several loading cases. These surfaces are further generalized to incorporate the effect of the activation temperature change. The relation between the residual macroscopic plastic strain and the activation temperature change, as well as the macroscopic stress–strain response of the activated composite are presented.
85.85.+j Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices
81.40.Jj Elasticity and anelasticity, stress-strain relations
Issue 1 (February 2008)
Received 29 August 2007, in final form 9 December 2007
Published 17 January 2008
Yuval Freed and Jacob Aboudi 2008 Smart Mater. Struct. 17 015046
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