Elastocaloric cooling of shape memory alloys: A review

J Chen, L Lei, G Fang - Materials Today Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric cooling technology based on shape memory alloys (SMAs) exploits the caloric
effect generated by stress-induced phase transformation of elastocaloric materials to realize …

Shape memory alloys for aerospace, recent developments, and new applications: A short review

G Costanza, ME Tata - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) show a particular behavior that is the ability to recuperate the
original shape while heating above specific critical temperatures (shape memory effect) or to …

Wire-based directed energy deposition of NiTiTa shape memory alloys: microstructure, phase transformation, electrochemistry, X-ray visibility and mechanical …

X Zuo, W Zhang, Y Chen, JP Oliveira, Z Zeng, Y Li… - Additive …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) technology was used for the fabrication of
NiTiTa (2.5 at.% Ta) shape memory alloys (SMAs) for the first time, using commercialy …

A review of constitutive models and modeling techniques for shape memory alloys

C Cisse, W Zaki, TB Zineb - International Journal of Plasticity, 2016 - Elsevier
Constitutive models for shape memory alloys have seen significant development in the last
decades. They have evolved from uniaxial, mostly empirical, relations to full-fledged …

Physical metallurgy of Ti–Ni-based shape memory alloys

K Otsuka, X Ren - Progress in materials science, 2005 - Elsevier
Ti–Ni-based alloys are quite attractive functional materials not only as practical shape
memory alloys with high strength and ductility but also as those exhibiting unique physical …

Structural control: past, present, and future

GW Housner, LA Bergman, TK Caughey… - Journal of …, 1997 - ascelibrary.org
This tutorial/survey paper:(1) provides a concise point of departure for researchers and
practitioners alike wishing to assess the current state of the art in the control and monitoring …

Recent developments in the research of shape memory alloys

K Otsuka, X Ren - Intermetallics, 1999 - Elsevier
Most of shape memory alloys are functional intermetallics. They are now practically being
used for couplings, actuators, medical guide wires etc., and are hopeful candidates for smart …

Thermomechanical aspects of NiTi

JA Shaw, S Kyriakides - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 1995 - Elsevier
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 …

Superelasticity degradation of NiTi shape memory alloy in wide ranges of temperature and loading level: Experimental observation and micromechanical constitutive …

D Song, C Yu, C Zhang, G Kang - International Journal of Plasticity, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, cyclic tension-unloading tests with different peak strains (10%-18%) in the
temperature range from 313 K to 393 K are performed to investigate the effects of …

Elastocaloric cooling capacity of shape memory alloys–Role of deformation temperatures, mechanical cycling, stress hysteresis and inhomogeneity of transformation

Y Wu, E Ertekin, H Sehitoglu - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric (EC) effect refers to the rapid cooling in shape memory alloys (SMAs) during
reverse transformation from martensite to austenite under adiabatic conditions. We present a …