Shape Memory Alloy Engineering

Preface

The book is addressed to PhD students, postdegree researchers, and professionals in the industry who want to have a complete survey on the main characteristics of shape memory alloys (SMA) and their different fields of uses in order to proceed with practical implementations. The book provides the readers with details for a wide understanding of the SMA behavior, their modeling, and their potentialities in engineering. Superelastic and shape memory effects are considered, different evidences of a single microstructural behavior. This comprehensive approach makes the book a unique element of its kind in the current scenario of available publications. Aeronautics is specially addressed while, in order to give a complete vision, a conclusive ...