An experimental study of the superelastic effect in a shape-memory Nitinol alloy under biaxial loading

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 969-986

  McNaney, J M ^a,c   Imbeni, V ^a   Jung, Y ^b   Papadopoulos, Panayiotis ^b   Ritchie, R O ^a  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive behavior; Multiaxial loading; NiTi; Nitinol; Phase transformation; Shape memory alloys; Superelasticity

Indexed keywords

ISOTHERMS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TORSION TESTING;

SUPERELASTIC EFFECT;

SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

EID: 0042020165     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6636(02)00310-1     Document Type: Article

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