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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Guozheng Kang is Chair Professor of Mechanics at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He now serves as Vice President at Southwest Jiaotong University. He was awarded the title of Chair Professor of Changjiang Scholars Program, the Ministry of Education, China, in 2014 and was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Southwest Jiaotong University in 1997. His research activities focus on cyclic plasticity and visco-plasticity, fatigue failure and life prediction, low-cycle fatigue, multiaxial fatigue, fretting fatigue, rolling contact fatigue and ratchetting-fatigue interaction for metallic and polymeric materials, as well as the thermo-mechanical fatigue of shape memory alloys.

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. Qianhua Kan is Professor and Deputy Director of the School of Mechanics and Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He received his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2009. At present, he serves as Member of the Youth Working Committee and the 5th History and Methodology of Mechanics Specialized Committee of Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Member of the Intelligent Composite Materials Special Committee of Chinese Society of Composite Materials, Vice Chairman of Youth Working Committee of Sichuan Society in Mechanics, etc. His interested research fields include multi-coupled cyclic plasticity and fatigue failure of engineering materials, wheel-rail rolling contact fatigue,as well as the thermo-mechanically coupled fatigue of smart materials.