Written by leading experts in the field, this book highlights an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to thermo-mechanically coupled cyclic deformation and fatigue failure of shape memory alloys. The book deals with: (1) experimental observations on the cyclic deformation and fatigue failure in the macroscopic and microscopic scales; (2) molecular dynamics and phase-field simulations for the thermo-mechanical behaviors and underlying mechanisms during cyclic deformation; (3) macroscopic phenomenological and crystal plasticity-based cyclic constitutive models; and (4) fatigue failure models.
This book is an important reference for students, practicing engineers and researchers who study shape memory alloys in the areas of mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering as well as materials science.
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Chao Yu is Professor of Mechanics at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He received his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2015. At present, he is Member of Intelligent Composite Materials Special Committee of Chinese Society of Composite Materials. His research activities focus on multi-field coupled constitutive models of materials, including shape memory alloys, ferromagnetic shape memory alloys and polymers.