Numerical modeling of shape memory alloy problem in presence of perturbation: application to Cu-Al-Zn-Mn specimen

Abstract

This paper proposes a methodology for taking into consideration uncertainties based on polynomial chaos (PC). The proposed approach is used in order to determine the response of Cu-Al-Zn-Mn shape memory alloy specimen with uncertainties associated to material parameters. The simulation results are obtained by PC method. The proposed method seems to be an efficient probabilistic tool. It is worth mentioning that PC approach is an interesting alternative for the parametric studies. This technique is more efficient compared to MC approach.

Keywords

• shape memory alloy specimen
• material parameters
• polynomial chaos method
• uncertainty