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.

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

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Materials with TRIP Effect: Mechanisms and Modeling (Keynote lecture).- Constitutive Equation and Computational Prediction of Deformation Behavior of TRIP Steels under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading.- A Thermodynamic Approach to Modeling of Stress-Induced Phase-Transition Front Propagation in Solids.- The Formation of Macrotwins in NiAl Martensite.- On the Detwinning Mechanism in Shape Memory Alloys.- Nonlinear Electromechanical Deformation and Fracture Related to Domain Switching in Ferroelectric Ceramics.- Two-way Shape Memory Effect Obtained by Training of Combined Cyclic Loading.- Observation of Domain Motion in Single-Crystal Barium Titanate under Combined Electromechanical Loading Conditions (Keynote lecture).- Testing and Modeling A Cu-Al-Be Shape Memory Alloy Behavior under Complex Stress Loading.- Thermomechanical Properties of Polyurethane-Shape Memory Polymer.- Transformation Induced Plasticity (TRIP) in a Maraging Steel.- Free Energy of Martensitic Transformation From Discrete to Homogeneous Microstructure.- Observations on Stress-induced Transformations in NiTi Alloys.- Dependence of Energy Release Rate on the Propagation Speed of Martensitic Transformation in Materials.- Martensitic Transformations in Constrained Films (Keynote lecture).- Influence of Microstructural Parameters on Shape Memory Alloys Behavior.- Elastic Deformations in Shape Memory Alloy Fiber Reinforced Composites.- Modeling of Superelastic Adaptive Composites.- Influence of Plasticity on Transformation Behaviour of Martensite in NiTi.- On the Description of Transformation in DO3 Austenite to 18R Martensite in Shape Memory Alloys using Group Theory.- Pressurized Heterogeneous Thin Films of Martensitic Materials.- Load Partitioning in Shape Memory Alloy Polycrystals Studied by In-situNeutron Diffraction and Modeling.- Dynamic Characteristics of Ti-Ni SMA Thin Film Microactuators (Keynote lecture).- On The Description of Martensitic Phase Transformations Using Tensorial Transformation Kinetics.- Mechanical Instability of NiTi in Tension, Compression and Shear.- Heterogeneous Nucleation in a 2-D Model of Martensitic Transformation with Volume Changes.- Phase Transformation of Thin Wires in Tension.- Unconventional Domain Bands Near a Crack Tip in Ferroelectrics.- A Macroscopic Model for Microscopically Heterogeneous Shape Memory Materials.- Author Index.