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1 Introduction
It has been several years now since a new area in engineering great help in our attempt to understand the behavior of such
science, labeled "active materials and smart structures" has composites: 1) the advancement of coupled field theories in
emerged (Jaeger and Rogers, 1988). These new research ac- the fifties and sixties (Truesdell and Toupin, 1960); 2) extensive
tivities reflect the need for a new generation of engineering micromechanics modeling of heterogeneous media over the
products and systems with better precision, efficiency, and past two decades (Christensen, 1979; Nemat-Nasser and Hori,
reliability. Advances in materials research and mechanics and 1993).
control of complex structural systems have made possible such The definition of an active material phase is schematically
an undertaking. The expectations are also high: one envisions given in Fig. 1. An active material is a continuum phase whose
an active phase to be embedded in a structural element trans- mechanical constitutive response is coupled with a nonme:
forming it into a sensory and/or adaptive structure. When chanical effect. Thermoelasticity, piezoelectricity, magneto-
there is also an embedded (integrated) feedback control, the striction, and hygroelasticity are a few examples. The solution
structure is characterized as "smart." Provisions for adjust- of coupled field problems in structural applications requires
ment of the control strategy based on changing environment sophisticated numerical schemes to handle additional unknown
or material characteristics will eventually result in an "intel- dependent variables and boundary and initial conditions. Since
ligent" structure (Takagi, 1990; Wada et al., 1990). many of the available finite element or boundary element tech-
The key to success of such an endeavor is powerful com- niques, as well as analytical techniques, have been developed
puters and control algorithms as well as materials that meet for mechanical problems, it is often convenient to decouple
the design constraints of complex integrated engineering sys- field problems by treating the influence of non-mechanical
tems. The materials aspect involves both novel active materials interactions as a known distribution of applied body forces
development issues and design and fabrication issues of the that result from known eigenstrains (Mura, 1987). A successful
integrated structure. Shedding some light on the link between application of this concept is the thermal eigenstrain, which
materials behavior and structural response is the subject of the is added to the elastic strain to produce the total compatible
present work. Since active materials are usually embedded into ei'genstrain. The thermal eigenstrain is introduced as a function
or attached onto structural elements (Lagoudas and of temperature that is assumed to be known, either experi-
Tadjbakhsh, 1992), we will concentrate here in the modeling mentally measured or evaluated from the uncoupled heat con-
of the behavior of composite structures with active material duction equation. Phase transformation strains have also been
phases. Two key developments over the last forty years are of treated in a similar way. This approximate way of modeling
active materials is of course valid in the case of weak inter-
actions.
Contributed by the Materials Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF An active phase is therefore characterized by an eigenstrain
ENGINEERING MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY. Manuscript received by the Mate-
rials Division August 20, 1993; revised manuscript received February 3, 1994. which is assumed to be either directly controllable or indirectly
Associate Technical Editor: J. W. Ju. controllable through coupling. An active composite is a het-
(28) ^ 5 B
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M A
In the above equation D = l/2(B +D ) is the average elastic JMJ/^O^ 10 1 101 JSS Jflfi 107 AOB
A logical choice for A,y can be made by considering the aLJ / / \ m//\ i 3r"V\\ \ \ \
symmetry changes that occur during phase transformation and \so\m. \ I2 \ SI 81
transformation tensor in (28) has a different form governed Fig. 3 The composite unit cell and finite element mesh
by geometric considerations, i.e., is proportional to the trans-
formation strain.
where
The tangent mechanical and thermal stiffnesses L,yw and /,y
are defined by Q<y = (Qjki ~ Cjjki)eeki ~ CiJki(aki - aw)AT - C,ywAw (33)
ff,y = L, yw e w + /,yT. (29)
Equation (32) can be further simplified by collecting the terms
In order to derive these tangent stiffness tensors, the stress- containing 6>,:
strain equation of state
°ij + Gijmnbmn — Cjjki ekt+ R,yT, (34)
"U = QjkiCki = Cijki (iki ~ e'ki - ak,A T) (30)where
is written in rate form as
3 ff m
a = r - _n ^ "
ij Cijkl ekl + Cyk/Ckl
OCT Z (T
= C///w(«*/-«*/- ««T - a WAT) + C,ywe|, (31)
(35)
where efy, e,y,e'ij, and AT are the elastic strain, the total infin- Ry = Qy "^j; - CyiciUicl
itesimal strain, the transformation strain, and AT = T - T ° ,
where T° is the stress-free reference temperature. The deviatoric stress rate in (34) is eliminated by using
The elastic stiffness Cijkl tensor and the thermoelastic ex- ' mn u mn 1/3 aDDb„
pansion vector ak, are given by (18) and (19), respectively. The The tangent stiffness tensors can eventually be identified as
rates CiJki and ak/ may be obtained from (18) and (19) using
the chain rule for the time derivative £. Equations (18), (19), (J-ijmn + Gijmn) Cijkl (36)
and (28) can be substituted into (31) to yield and
ffy = Cijki £ * r C,ywawT + £ Q,y (32) 'mn \*ijmn ' ^ijmn) **//> (37)
Fig. 5(a) The effective stress fieid as predicted by the finite element
analysis at the end of loading for the case shown in Fig. 4(b)
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Fig. 7(a) The composite response, i.e., overall normal strains in the
Fig. 6 The effective fiber stress as predicted by the Mori-Tanaka method,
longitudinal and transverse directions, due to longitudinal tension quas-
for the three cases shown in Figs. 4(a), 4(b), and 4(c) istatic loading at r = 3 5 ° C
the agreement between the Mori-Tanaka and the finite element TEMPERATURE 35°C
analysis is very good.
' Longitudinal Response by FEM
For the case of longitudinal loading of composites with stiff Longitudinal Response by M-T
• T r a n s v e r s e Response b y FEM
fibers reinforcing a compliant matrix, simple averaging meth- T r a n s v e r s e Response b y M-T
ods are known to give accurate results because the stress state
in the fiber is approximately uniaxial (longitudinal) and spa-
tially homogeneous. However, for the case of transverse load-
ing of "conventional" inelastic composites, i.e., composites
consisting of an elastic fiber and an inelastic matrix, averaging
methods are known to be inaccurate because of the complicated
stress distribution in the matrix (Lagoudas et al., 1991). In the W 150°
present case of a SMA fiber and an elastic matrix, however,
transverse loading results in a relatively uniform distribution «
of effective stress and effective strain in the fiber, as evidenced E-i 100.0
Fig. 8(a) The effective stress field as predicted by the finite element
analysis at the end of loading for the case shown in Fig. 7(d)
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STRAIN ( p e r c e n t )
Fig. 9 The effective fiber stress as predicted by the Mori-Tanaka method
for the three cases shown in Figs. 7(a), 7(d), and 7(c) Fig. 10 Comparison between the FEM results for tetragonal and hex-
agonal periodic fiber arrangements and the Mori-Tanaka method for
transverse tension quasistatic loading at 7"=51°C
the same amount upon unloading (shape memory effect). Par-
tial shape recovery is also predicted in the transverse shear
loading case, shown in Fig. 7(c). However, the transverse ten- TEMPERATURE 51°
sion case, shown in Fig. 7(b), shows no composite shape re- 3D0- o-oe-ao FEM Analysis for H e x a g o n a l A r r a n g e m e n t
covery upon unloading. The explanation for this interesting FEM Analysis for T e t r a g o n a l A r r a n g e m e n t
* - * * • * - *
due to the eigenstresses (or residual stress) that result from the S* ''''
incompatibility of the eigenstrains. During unloading of the w
/ &y^
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f y
composite, the decreasing applied stress combines with the • '/-''
compressive residual stress, resulting in a fiber effective stress
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/£'''
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that reaches a minimum before the end of unloading and sub- -
sequently increases. In the case of transverse loading in tension, - JT
the minimum of the effective fiber stress does not go below o : ffffr, mi Tm-rr r n u | | | | • | n| i i i i i j i , .iiiiuiiii
4.0 6.0 8.0 10.0 12.0 16.0
the value required for the reverse transformation and as a result STRAIN ( percent )
there is no shape recovery upon unloading. Fig. 11 Comparison between the FEM results for tetragonal and hex-
As a comparison between tetragonal and hexagonal periodic agonal periodic fiber arrangements and the Mori-Tanaka method for
arrangements, the effective response of the composite under transverse shear quasistatic loading at r=51°C
overall transverse and shear loading for the two periodic ar-
rangements is shown in Figs. 10 and 11. The results from the
Mori-Tanaka averaging method are also plotted in the same of the Army Research Office, contract No. DAAL03-92-G-
figures. It can be seen that for the same volume fraction the 0123, monitored by Dr. G. L. Anderson.
Mori-Tanaka predictions lie in-between the tetragonal and hex-
agonal periodic arrangements, with the hexagonal being the
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February 1-4.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support Boyd, J. G., and Lagoudas, D. C , 1994, "Thermomechanical Response of