Abstract. Many materials are concerned by strain localization, for instance PLC phenomena, Lüders' bands or Shape Memory Alloys (SMA). The experimental identification of such material behaviors requires the use of full field kinematic measurements, such as provided by Digital Image Correlation (DIC), as well as Infra-Red (IR) thermography to evaluate the associate thermal dissipation. Jointly, these field measurements allow for a full thermo-mechanical characterization of material behavior. However, the space and time association of both fields remains a major difficulty (antagonist surface texture requirements, imaging devices having different pixel number and acquisition rate...). In this paper, we introduce a much simpler experimental approach, which consists in a novel extended DIC technique applied to a single set of IR images. It gives access to both displacement and temperature fields decomposed over the same discretization. This technique, applied to tensile tests on a NiTi SMA, reveals both strain localization due to the phase transformation and associated thermal dissipation.

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International audienceShape Memory Alloys (SMAs) undergo an austenite-martensite solid-solid phase transformation which confers its pseudo-elastic and shape memory behaviours. Phase transformation can be induced either by stress or temperature changes. That indicates a strong thermo-mechanical coupling. Tensile test is one of the most popular mechanical test, allowing an easy observation of this coupling: transformation bands appear and enlarge giving rise to a large amount of heat and strain localisation. We demonstrate that the number of transformation bands is strongly associated with the strain rate. Recent progress in full field measurement techniques have provided accurate observations and consequently a better understanding of strain and heat generation and diffusion in SMAs. These experiments bring us to suggest the creation of a new one-dimensional thermomechanical modelling of the pseudo-elastic behaviour. It is used to simulate the heat rise, strain localisation and thermal evolution of the NiTi SMA sample submitted to tensile loading