Multiscale analysis for layered composite SMA plates

Aim of the present work is to analyse of smart laminates, obtained as staking sequence of fiber-reinforced composite laminae and composite SMA layers developing a full multiscale approach. In particular, a nonlinear MITC4 laminate finite element, based on the first-order shear deformation theory, is developed. The SMA layer constitutive relationship is determined solving at each nonlinear iteration of each time step for each integration Gauss point a nonlinear homogenization problem.