In recent years examples of unprecedented functional and structural fatigue resistance and
lowered hysteresis in shape memory alloys have been achieved by combining conditions of …

Nitinol, a nearly equiatomic alloy of nickel and titanium, has been considered for a wide
range of applications including medical and dental devices and implants as well as …

The uniaxial behavior of a nearly equiatomic NiTi alloy is studied experimentally.
Experiments are conducted in a temperature and deformation regime in which the alloy …

In this paper we present an experimental methodology for simultaneous full field monitoring
of the deformation and thermal changes in NiTi during mechanically unstable regimes …

Introduction Theshape memoryeffect(SlviE) appears in some special alloys which
sho_wcrystallographically revers-ible martensitic transfbrmations. The martensitic …

Improving the functional stability of shape memory alloys (SMAs), which undergo a
reversible martensitic transformation, is critical for their applications and remains a central …

In situ and post-mortem diffraction contrast transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was
used to study the multiplication of dislocations during a thermal martensitic forward and …

Microstructural analyses of thermal or mechanical fatigued Nitinol show remarkable
similarities and are characterized by an increase in dislocation density with increasing …

Systematic experiments were performed to determine where and when dislocations are
induced during the thermal cycling of Ti–Ni shape memory alloys. The decrease in …

The crystallography of the cubic-to-monoclinic stress-induced martensitic transformation in a
Ti-49.8 at% Ni alloy was studied using single crystals. Experimental results were compared …