Shape Memory Alloys Modeling and Engineering Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lagoudas, Dimitris C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Subjects: Materials science.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Continuum mechanics.; Mechanical engineering.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Materials Science.; Materials Science, general.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Mechanical Engineering.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.

This book provides a working knowledge of the modeling and applications of shape memory alloys (SMAs) to practicing engineers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students with an interest in the behavior and utility of active or multifunctional materials and "smart" structures. SMAs re...

Table of Contents:

• to Shape Memory Alloys
• Thermomechanical Characterization of Shape Memory Alloy Materials
• Thermomechanical Constitutive Modeling of SMAs
• Numerical Implementation of an SMA Thermomechanical Constitutive Model Using return Mapping Algorithms
• Modeling of Transformation-Induced Plasticity in SMAs
• Extended SMA Modeling
• Modeling of Magnetic SMAs.