TY - CHAP AU - Hongyan Luo AU - Yanjian Liao AU - Eric Abel AU - Zhigang Wang AU - Xia Liu ED - Corneliu Cismasiu Y1 - 2010-10-18 PY - 2010 T1 - Hysteresis Behaviour and Modeling of SMA Actuators N2 - In the last decades, the Shape Memory Alloys, with their peculiar thermo-mechanical properties, high corrosion and extraordinary fatigue resistance, have become more popular in research and engineering applications. This book contains a number of relevant international contributions related to their properties, constitutive models and numerical simulation, medical and civil engineering applications, as well as aspects related to their processing. BT - Shape Memory Alloys SP - Ch. 4 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/9982 DO - 10.5772/9982 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -