Shape Memory Alloys: Properties, Technologies, Opportunities

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: This special topic volume addresses the properties, technologies, and opportunities related to shape memory alloys through 20 essays by scientists from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Belgium, and Canada. They address the theory of martensitic transformations and the modeling of functional properties of shape memory alloys, including new methods for the simulation and prediction of their behavior under different stress-temperature regimes and the wave model for the description of maternsite crystal growth at different sequences of martensitic transformations and the analysis of recent achievements in the theoretical description of phase transformation in Heusler alloys. They describe the physical basis for the development of shape memory alloys, including properties like high-temperature shape memory alloys, high-strength single crystals of shape memory alloys, and ferromagnetic shape memory alloys; methods for controlling their functional properties by thermomechanical treatment, warm deformation, electroplastic deformation, high strain rate loading, ultrasonic vibration, and neutron irradiation; maternsitic transformation and shape memory effects in special objects such as porous alloys, thin ribbons, high-strength precipitation-hardening austenitic steels, and TiNi-based alloys; and applications in Russia.

Ringgold Subjects:

— Crystallography— Materials science— Metals