Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) for Engineering Applications
This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Materials".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Materials is dedicated to “Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) for Engineering Applications”. We are expecting to receive papers dealing with cutting-edge issues on research and application of SMAs in structural engineering. The topics of the Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Alloy designing of SMAs for structural engineering including:
- Nickel-titanium-based SMAs
- Copper-based SMAs
- Iron-based SMAs
- Aluminum-based SMAs
- Applications of SMAs for structural engineering using:
- Damping capacity of SMAs
- Superelasticity of SMAs
- Applications in structural engineering using shape memory effect of SMAs for tensioning applications as:
- Coupling, Fastener
- Tendon
- Concrete reinforcement
- Near surface mounted reinforcement
- Short fibers
- Actuator applications of SMAs in structural engineering
- Active vibration control in structural engineering using SMAs
- Hybrid composites of shape memory alloys and polymers for structural engineering
- SMAs as sensors for health monitoring of structural engineering
- Modeling of the SMAs applications in structural engineering including
- Material constitutive models
- Structural behavior models
- Long term behavior models
Prof. Dr. Masoud Motavalli
Dr. Christoph Czaderski
Prof. Dr. Moslem Shahverdi
Collection Editors
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Keywords
- shape memory alloys (SMAs)
- shape memory effect (SME)
- superelasticity
- modeling
- alloy design
- structural engineering
- civil engineering
- smart materials
- external strengthening
- structural rehabilitation
- constitutive models
- long term behavior
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Published Papers
Materials - ISSN 1996-1944