In recent years shape memory alloys (SMAs) have gained significant attention as potential
damping device materials. This article presents an extensive review of the damping …

Soft robots, which exhibit distinguishing features in terms of compliance, adaptability, and
safety, have been expansively adopted in various niche applications. For soft robots …

The shape recovery ability of shape-memory alloys vanishes below a critical size (~ 50 nm),
which prevents their practical applications at the nanoscale. In contrast, ferroic materials …

Copper-based shape memory alloys (SMAs) have recently been introduced as a viable
alternative to Ni–Ti SMAs. This is attributed to the fact that Cu-based SMAs are cheaper than …

Superelasticity from the stress-induced martensitic transformation in shape memory alloys
(SMA) and its study at the nanoscale has a fundamental and technological relevance …

Direct experimental characterization of indentation-induced martensitic microstructures in
pseudoelastic shape memory alloys (SMAs) is not possible, and thus there is a lack of …

Shape memory alloys are widely used in aerospace, biomedical engineering, flexible
electronics, and smart actuators because of their excellent mechanical properties, good …

Superelastic alloys used for stents, biomedical implants, and solid-state cooling devices rely
on their reversible stress-induced martensitic transformations. These applications require …

Mechanical spectroscopy techniques and internal friction measurements have historically
offered a key contribution to the understanding of fundamental mechanisms of defects …

The in situ micromechanical tensile tests are conducted to characterize the superelastic
behaviors for [223],[1 2 14],[325] and [205] oriented Cu 67 Al 24 Mn 9 micro-slats. The stress …