Phase transition phenomena in solids are of vital interest to physicists, materials scientists, and engineers who need to understand and model the mechanical behavior of solids during various kinds of phase transformations. This volume is a collection of 29 written contributions by distinguished invited speakers from 14 countries to the IUTAM Symposium on Mechanics of Martensitic Phase Transformation in Solids, the first IUTAM Symposium focusing on this topic. It contains basic theoretical and experimental aspects of the recent advances in the mechanics research of martensitic phase transformations. The main topics include microstructure and interfaces, material instability and its propagation, micromechanics approaches, interaction between plasticity and phase transformation, phase transformation in thin films, single and polycrystalline shape memory alloys, shape memory polymers, TRIP steels, etc. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of the research covered, this volume will be of interest to researchers, graduate students and engineers in the field of theoretical and applied mechanics as well as materials science and technology.

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Preface. Committees and Sponsors. List of Participants. List of Contributors. Session Program. Materials with TRIP Effects: Mechanisms and Modelling (Keynote lecture); M. Cherkaoui, M. Berveiller. Constitutive Equation and Computational Prediction of Deformation Behavior of TRIP Steels under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading; Y. Tomita, T. Iwamoto. A Thermodynamic Approach to Modelling of Stress-Induced Phase-Transition Front Propagation in Solids; A. Berezovski, et al. The Formation of Macrotwins in NiAl Martensite; J.M. Ball, D. Schryvers. On the Deformation Mechanism of Shape Memory Alloys; Y. Liu. Nonlinear Electromechanical Deformation and Fracture Related to Domain Switching in Ferroelectric Ceramics; D.-N. Fang, et al. Two-way Shape Memory Effect Obtained by Training of Combined Cyclic Loading; M. Tokuda, et al. Domain Patterns, Texture and Macroscopic Electro-mechanical Properties of Ferroelectrics (Keynote lecture); E. Burcsu, et al. Multiaxial Mechanical Behavior of A Cu-Al-Be Shape Memory Alloy: Experimental Investigations and Phenomenological Modeling; C. Bouvet, et al. Thermomechanical Properties of Polyurethane-Shape Memory Polymer; H. Tobushi, et al. The Transformation Induced Plasticity (TRIP) in a Martensitically Transforming Steel Subjected to a General Loading Path; Th. Antretter, et al. Free Energy of Martensitic Transformation - From Discrete to Homogeneous Microstructure; C. Messner, et al. Single Crystal Deformation Mechanisms in NiTi, NiTiCu and Fe- Based Shape Memory Alloys; H. Sehitoglu, et al. Dependence of Energy Release Rate on the Propagation Speed of Martensitic Transformation in Materials; B. Wang, et al. Martensitic Transformation in Constrained Films (Keynote lecture); A. Roytburd, J. Slutsker. Influence of Microstructural Parameters on Shape Memory Alloys Behavior; E. Patoor, et al. Elastic Deformations in Shape Memory Alloy Fiber Reinforced Composites; H. Tsai, X. Fan. Modeling of Superelastic Adaptive Composites; J. Slutsker, A. Roytburd. Influence of Plasticity on Transformation Behaviour of Martensite in NiTi; Y.-N. Liu. On the Description of Transformation in DO3 To 18R Shape Memory Alloys Using Group Theory; J.J. Zhu, et al. Pressurized Heterogeneous Thin Films of Martensitic Materials; Y.C. Shu. Load Partitioning Among Grains of Martensitically Transforming Shape Memory Alloy Polycrystals Studied By In-situ Neutron Diffraction; P. sittner, et al. Ti-Ni Sputter-deposited SMA Thin Films and Their Applications (Keynote lecture); S. Miyazaki, et al. On The Description of Martensitic Phase Transformations Using Tensorial Transformation Kinetics; O.T. Bruhns, C. Oberste-Brandenburg. Mechanical Instability of NiTi in Tension, Compression and Shear; D. Favier, et al. Theoretical Study of Heterogeneous Nucleation in Martensitic Phase Transition; W.W. Cao, R. Ahaluwalia. Phase Transformation of Thin Wires in Tension; P. Tong, et al. Unconventional Domain Bands Near a Crack Tip in Ferroelectrics; W. Yang, et al. A Macroscopic Model for Microscopically Heterogeneous Shape Memory Alloys; D. Bernardini. Author Index.