A Short Review of Shape Memory Alloys Thermomechanical Models

Abstract

At first, some comments are made concerning the capacity of prediction of the microstructure for shape memory alloys by the Crystallographical Theory of Martensite. Secondly, the basic foundations of the phenomenological modeling of shape memory alloys behavior at the macroscopic scale are given. A special attention is devoted to the yield surface of phase transformation initiation in the stress space and its convex dual: the set of effective transformation strains in the strain space.