Shape Memory Alloys: Fabrication and processing - Softcover

Szurman, Ivo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3848425351 ISBN 13: 9783848425358

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Shape Memory Alloys include a wide range of various materials. These materials exhibit unique properties including thermal (shape memory effect) and mechanical (pseudoelasticity) memory, whereas both these characteristics depend on the martensitic phase transformation and diffusion-free transformation of the solid state. One of the main reasons is their attractiveness due to shape memory and pseudoelastic properties, excellent biocompability and high corrosive resistance. The most attention (even today) goes to Ni-Ti and Ni-Ti-Me systems, where Me represents another alloying element. This book covers mainly Ni-Ti based materials. Alloys from these systems have characteristic features of long-range structure, thermoelastic martensite and crystallographic reversible phase transformations. This book is focused on fabrication, conventional as well as non-conventional forming techniques. Among others there are stated methods for transformation temperatures measurement and evaluation of microstructural characteristic.

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About the Author

All of the authors i.e. Ivo Szurman (assistant professor), Radim Kocich (associate professor) and Miroslav Kursa (professor) are working at the Faculty of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Technical University of Ostrava. Their field of interest is manufacturing, processing and forming of non ferrous metals.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3848425351
• ISBN 13: 9783848425358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112