Nitinol, a near equiatomic intermetallic of nickel and titanium, is the most widely known and
used shape memory alloy. Owing to its capacity to undergo a thermal or stress induced …

The paper reviews and discusses various techniques used in the literature for modeling
complex behaviors observed in shape memory alloys (SMAs) that go beyond the core …

We present a new phase field framework for modelling fracture and fatigue in Shape
Memory Alloys (SMAs). The constitutive model captures the superelastic behaviour of SMAs …

Nitinol self-expanding stents are effective in treating peripheral artery disease, including the
superficial femoral, carotid, and renal arteries. However, fracture occurrences of up to 50 …

Crack extension under static loading in pseudoplastic and pseudoelastic binary NiTi shape
memory alloy (SMA) compact tension (CT) specimens was examined. Two material …

A new non-destructive evaluation technique to detect cracks emanating from the inner
surface (inner cracks) of a high-pressure hydrogen storage cylinder was developed by …

An ultrafine-grained pseudoelastic NiTi shape-memory alloy wire with 50.9 at.% Ni was
examined using synchrotron X-ray diffraction during in situ uniaxial tensile loading (up to …

The structural fatigue life of nanocrystalline NiTi wires with grain size ranging from 53 nm to
125 nm was improved by stress-controlled mechanical training and the percentage of the …

NiTi wires, having different nanocrystalline microstructures, were subjected to superelastic
fatigue tests in a wide temperature range, and lattice defects accumulating during tensile …

A shape memory material (shape memory alloy (SMA) or shape memory polymer (SMP))
can experience large deformation and recover its original shape when exposed to a specific …