A semi-analytic analysis of shape memory alloy thick-walled cylinders under internal pressure

In this paper, a new method for analysis of the pseudoelastic response of shape memory alloy thick-walled cylinders subjected to internal pressure is proposed. Two cases of short and long cylinders are considered by assuming the plane stress and plane strain conditions. In each case, a three-dimensional phenomenological SMA constitutive model is simplified to obtain the corresponding two-dimensional constitutive relations. The cylinder is partitioned into a finite number of narrow annular regions, and appropriate assumptions are made in order to find a closed-form solution for the equilibrium equations in each annular region. The global solution is obtained by enforcing the stress continuity condition at the interface of the annular regions and imposing the boundary conditions. Several numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method, and the results are compared with three-dimensional finite element simulations.