In civil engineering, beam structures such as bridges require reinforcement to increase load-bearing capacity and extend service life due damage, aging, degradation under long-time services disasters. The utilization of Fe-based shape memory alloys (Fe-SMA) reinforce has been proven efficient reliable, the recovery stress activated Fe-SMA can satisfy requirements. This article overviews materia...

We show that in metamagnetic shape memory alloys exhibiting a magnetostructural first order phase transition the direct transition from ferromagnetic austenite to nonmagnetic martensite is isothermal. In contrast to the direct transformation, the reverse one nonmagnetic martensite–ferromagnetic austenite is athermal, just as are athermal both direct and reverse martensitic transformations in co...

impact responses of rectangular composite plates with embedded shape memory alloy (sma) wires are investigated in the present research. the plate is assumed to be placed in a thermal environment; so that in contrast to the available researches in the field, the shape memory and ferroelasticity effects have to be considered also in addition to the superelasticity. the governing equations are der...