TY - CHAP AU - Yoichi Haga AU - Takashi Mineta AU - Wataru Makishi AU - Tadao Matsunaga AU - Masayoshi Esashi ED - Corneliu Cismasiu Y1 - 2010-10-18 PY - 2010 T1 - Active Bending Catheter and Electric Endoscope Using Shape Memory Alloy 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. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/9971 DO - 10.5772/9971 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -