Shape Memory Alloys 2020

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; additive manufacturing; anisotropy; co-based Heusler alloy; cyclic heat treatment; cyclic tests; density control; differential scanning calorimetry; earthquake engineering; EBSD; elastic constants; energy dissipation; fatigue test; Fe-Mn-Al-Ni; high-entropy alloys; high-temperature shape memory alloys; intermetallic; laser powder bed fusion; laser-ultrasound; lattice structure; magnetic-field-induced transition; magnetocaloric effect; martensitic transformation; martensitic transitions; mechanical damping; mechanical testing; medium-entropy alloys; metamagnetic shape memory alloy; metamagnetic shape memory alloys; microstructure; multi-component alloys; n/a; NiTi; NiTiNb; phase diagram; phonon softening; pipe joints; process simulation; resonant ultrasound spectroscopy; selective laser melting; shape memory alloy; shape memory alloys; SME; structural defects; structure control; superelasticity; texture; titanium palladium; titanium platinum; X-ray diffraction
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 Shape memory alloys (SMAs), in comparison with other materials, have the exceptional ability to change their properties, structure, and functionality depending on the thermal, magnetic, and/or stress fields applied. As is well known, in recent decades, the development of SMAs has allowed innovative solutions and alternatives in biomedical applications and advanced engineering structures for aerospace and automotive industries as well as in sensor and actuation systems, among other sectors. Irrespective of this, designing and engineering using these special smart materials requires a solid background in materials science in order to consolidate their importance in these fields and to broaden their relevance for other new applications. The goal of this Special Issue is to foster the dissemination of some of the latest research devoted to these special materials from different perspectives.