Shape memory alloys (SMAs) with high transformation temperatures can enable
simplifications and improvements in operating efficiency of many mechanical components …

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 …

Cu-based shape memory alloys belong to one important class of functional alloys,
presenting shape memory effect and superelasticity due to their reversible martensitic …

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

The Ti-Ni alloy is so famous with the associated shape memory effect. In fact it is the only
alloy which is used for the practical applications of the shape memory effect on a commercial …

This two-part paper reviews the latest developments in the modeling of shape memory
alloys (SMAs) constitutive behavior. The basic properties of SMAs are presented in Part I …

The martensitic (also called displacive or diffusionless) transformation is a classical
cooperative phenomenon in solids similar to ferromagnetism. Although the displacement of …

In Au Cdalloy by Changand Readin 1951.1) Since then it had beenfound that Ti-Ni, Cu-Zn-
AI and several other alloy systems showedshape memoryef-fect and the effect was …

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 …

Transformation pseudoelasticity and shape memory effects in alloys are reviewed on an
introductory to intermediate level—the review is not intended to be exhaustive. What …