International audienceThis paper investigates experimentally the quasi-static and dynamic torsional behaviour of shape memory alloys wires under cyclic loading. A specifically designed torsional pendulum made of a Ni–Ti wire is described. Results on the quasi-static behaviour of the wire obtained using this setup are presented, giving an overall view of the damping capacity of the material as function of the amplitude of the loading (imposed torsional angle), the frequency and the temperature. The dynamical behaviour is then presented through measured frequency response function between forcing angle at the top of the pendulum and the difference between top and bottom rotation angles in the vicinity of the first eigenfrequency of the wire, i.e. in the range [0.3 Hz, 1 Hz]. The softening-type non-linearity and its subsequent jump phenomenon, predicted theorically by the decrease of the effective stiffness when martensite transformation starts is clearly evidenced and analysed

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International audienceThe non-linear dynamic thermomechanical behaviour of superelastic shape memory alloys is investigated. To this end, the Zaki-Moumni model, initially developed for quasi-static loading cases, is extended to simulate the uniaxial forced oscillations of a shape memory alloy device. First, the influence of loading rate is accounted for by considering the thermomechanical coupling in the behaviour of NiTi shape memory alloy. Comparisons between simulations and experimental results show good agreement. Then, the forced response of a shape memory alloy device is investigated at resonance. Both isothermal and non-isothermal conditions are studied, as well as non-symmetric tensile-compressive restoring force. In the case of large values of forcing amplitudes, simulation results show that the dynamic response is prone to jumps, bifurcations and chaotic solutions

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