A Review of Applications and Research of Shape Memory Alloys in Civil Engineering

This article presents a timely review of thermomechanical behaviours, recent structural applications, and researches of shape memory alloys (SMAs) in civil engineering. SMAs are used in a variety of fields, such as mechanical, aeronautical and medical fields. Other fields of knowledge have been rese...

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Published inIOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 392; no. 2; pp. 22009 - 22014
Main Authors Jia, Ying-qi, Lu, Zhou-Dao, Li, Ling-Zhi, Wu, Zhen-li
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.07.2018
Subjects
Civil engineering
Constitutive models
Medical research
Pseudoelasticity
Shape effects
Shape memory alloys
Smart structures
Structural damage
Thermodynamic properties
Thermomechanical properties
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Summary:This article presents a timely review of thermomechanical behaviours, recent structural applications, and researches of shape memory alloys (SMAs) in civil engineering. SMAs are used in a variety of fields, such as mechanical, aeronautical and medical fields. Other fields of knowledge have been researching these materials, attracted by their superb shape memory effect and pseudoelasticity under mechanical and thermal conditions. This article not only reports a bibliographic review on the constitutive models and thermodynamic properties for SMAs, but also describes the attributes of SMAs that make them ideally suitable to structural control, intelligent structure and structural damage repair.
ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/392/2/022009