Nitinol, a nearly equiatomic alloy of nickel and titanium, has been considered for a wide
range of applications including medical and dental devices and implants as well as …

Structural fatigue of NiTi shape memory alloys is a key issue that should be solved in order
to promote their engineering applications and utilize their unique shape memory effect and …

In this work, cyclic tension-unloading tests with different peak strains (10%-18%) in the
temperature range from 313 K to 393 K are performed to investigate the effects of …

Based on the strain-controlled cyclic tension-unloading tests at various strain rates (3.3× 10−
4–3.3× 10− 2/s), the effect of strain rate on the uniaxial cyclic deformation of a super-elastic …

Abstract A three-dimensional (3D) thermo-mechanical coupled and physical mechanism-
based constitutive model is phenomenologically constructed to describe the rate-dependent …

The functional degeneration of super-elastic NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA) rods is
investigated in the cyclic tension-unloading and compression-unloading experiments. The …

In this work, the rate-dependent and loading path-dependent cyclic deformation behaviors of
super-elastic NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA) are investigated under multiaxial cyclic …

Experimental results show that the martensite reorientation and reorientation-induced
plasticity play critical roles on the non-proportional multiaxial transformation ratchetting of …

Based on the experimental observations on the anisotropic cyclic deformation of super-
elastic NiTi shape memory alloy single crystals done by Gall and Maier (2002), a crystal …

The significance of advanced smart materials in recent technological research and
advancement is apparent from its extensive use in present day devices and instruments. Of …