An experimental investigation of crack initiation in thin sheets of nitinol

Acta Materialia

Volumn 55, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 6322-6330

  Daly, S ^a   Miller, A ^a   Ravichandran, G ^a   Bhattacharya, K ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Fracture; Phase transformation; Shape memory alloys

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; NUCLEATION; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION (DIC); NITINOL; PHASE BOUNDARY NUCLEATION;

CRACK INITIATION;

EID: 35148872746     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2007.07.038     Document Type: Article

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