SMST-2004 : proceedings of the International Conference on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies, October 3-7, 2004, Kurhaus Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany

Content: ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""
 ""FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""
 ""PREFACE""
 ""SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS AND FERROIC MATERIALS""
 ""MICROSTRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS IN POLYCRYSTALLINE NiTi SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS""
 ""PHASE TRANSITION SEQUENCE AND Af DETERMINATION IN NICKEL-TITANIUM SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS""
 ""ON THE ROLE OF THE R-PHASE IN THERMOMECHANICAL BEHAVIORS OF COMMERCIAL NiTi WIRES""
 ""CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC TEXTURE IN AUSTENITIC NITINOL""
 ""TEXTURE EVOLUTION DURING ANNEALING OF NiTi SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY""
 ""KINETICS CHARACTERIZATION OF MARTENSITIC TRANSFORMATION ON Ti-RICH NiTi SMA"" ""INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANISM OF THE STRESS-INDUCED MARTENSITIC PHASE TRANSFORMATION OF SUPERELASTIC SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS""""HIGH-ENERGY SYNCHROTRON DIFFRACTION STUDY OF TRANSFORMATION SHEAR BANDS IN Ni-RICH NiTi SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS""
 ""CHARACTERIZATION OF PRECIPITATES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON HARDNESS AND WEAR BEHAVIOUR IN NiTi SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS FOR ARTICULAR PROSTHESIS""
 ""CYCLIC FATIGUE OF NITINOL""
 ""BENDING FATIGUE CHARACTERISTICS OF NITINOL""
 ""AXIAL AND BENDING FATIGUE RESISTANCE OF NITINOL STENTS"" ""EVOLUTION OF MICROSTRUCTURAL PARAMETERS DURING CYCLING OF NiTi AND THEIR EFFECT ON MECHANICAL AND THERMAL MEMORY""""HYDROGEN EFFECTS ON NITINOL FATIGUE""
 ""COMPRESSIVE DAMAGE-INDUCED CRACKING IN NITINOL""
 ""FREQUENCY DEPENDANT FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR OF SUPER-ELASTIC NiTi ALLOYS SUBJECTED TO TORSIONAL LOADING""
 ""DEVELOPMENT AND FATIGUE EXPERIMENTS OF A NOVEL NONLINEAR MEDICAL DRILLING DEVICE CONTAINING A FLEXIBLE NiTi SHAFT""
 ""MICROMECHANICAL MODELLING OF THE INFLUENCE OF PRECIPITATES IN SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS"" ""MICROMECHANICAL MODEL SIMULATION OF THERMOMECHANICAL BEHAVIORS OF NiTi POLYCRYSTALS UNDERGOING B2-R-B19' TRANSFORMATION""""MICROMECHANICAL MODELLING OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF POLYCRYSTALLINE SHAPE-MEMORY-ALLOYS""
 ""FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ON THE CYCLIC PROPERTIES OF SUPERELASTIC NITINOL""
 ""ON THE THERMOMECHANICALLY COUPLED SIMULATION OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS""
 ""DESIGN OF NITINOL STENTS""
 ""DEPLOYMENT OF A SELF-EXPANDING STENT IN AN ARTERY""
 ""SOME COMMENTS ON THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELLING OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS UNDER MULTIAXIAL LOADINGS�DIMENSIONING OF AN AUTOMATON"" ""FERROMAGNETIC SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS, PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS""""ELASTIC DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR OF Ti-Nb-Sn THIN SHEETS AND WIRES""
 ""CONSIDERATION OF THE ASTM STANDARDS FOR NiTi ALLOYS""
 ""FABRICATION OF SUPERELASTIC NiTi TUBES BY MAGNETRON SPUTTERING""
 ""NICKEL-TITANIUM � STAINLESS STEEL COMPOSITES PRODUCED BY HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING""
 ""NiTi SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY METALLURGY�FABRICATION OF INGOTS AND SPUTTER TARGETS""
 ""AGING EFFECTS IN NICKEL RICH NiTi ALLOYS""
 ""SUPERELASTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF Ni-RICH NiTi WIRES FOR SHAPE SETTING APPLICATIONS""