Advances in Shape Memory Materials

1 Fabrication and output power characteristics of heat engines using tape-shaped SMA element.- 2 One-dimensional phase transformation model and its application to damping enhancement analysis.- 3 A review on experimental investigations of rate sensitivity of deformation behavior in Fe-based shape memory alloys.- 4 Shape memory effect and superelasticity of textured NiTi alloy wire.- 5 Development of the technology teaching materials using Ti-Ni shape memory alloy.- 6 A review of shape memory polymers thermos-mechanical modeling. Analysis in the frequency domain.- 7 Computational study of stretching rate effects on pattern formation in NiTi thin strips.- 8 Mechanical properties of shape memory alloys and polymers - A review on the study by Prof. Tobushi.- 9 Fatigue property and enhancement of fatigue life of TiNi shape memory alloys - An overview.- 10 Intelligent shape memory actuators.- 11 Structural and magnetic properties of magnetic shape memory alloys on Ni-Mn-Co-in self-standing films.- 12 Simultaneous measurement of continuum strain field and intermittent martensite band nucleation in single crystal Ni-Mn-Ga foils.- 13 Thermomechanical coupling and localization effects examined in shape memory alloys and polymers by fast and sensitive infrared camera.- 14 Anomalous Properties of TiNi processed by severe plastic deformation.- 15 Grain size effects on Young's modulus and hardness of nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloy.- 16 Grain size effects on wear resistance of nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloy.- 17 Experimental study of critical stresses of Fe-28Mn-6Si-5Cr SMA under various temperature conditions.- 18 Cyclic compressive responses of NiTi shape memory alloy-effects of loading frequency.