April 26, 2024 at 3:34 pm
John Doyle
Ansys Employee
Ansys does not have a standard material option that will simulate the rhombohedral distortion (R-Phase) of SMA martensitic structures. If this effect is critically important and you cannot calibrate the standard SMA properties to sufficiently match your test results, you would need to program your own material model via USERMAT routine. For more details, please refer to the MAPDL Programmer's Reference (ansys.com)Â