Thermo-Mechanically Coupled Cyclic Deformation and Fatigue Failure of NiTi Shape Memory Alloys / Springer Series in Materials Science Bd.335 (PDF)

Guozheng Kang is Chair Professor of Mechanics at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He now serves as Vice President at Southwest Jiaotong University. He was awarded the title of Chair Professor of Changjiang Scholars Program, the Ministry of Education, China, in 2014 and was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Southwest Jiaotong University in 1997. His research activities focus on cyclic plasticity and visco-plasticity, fatigue failure and life prediction, low-cycle fatigue, multiaxial fatigue, fretting fatigue, rolling contact fatigue and ratchetting-fatigue interaction for metallic and polymeric materials, as well as the thermo-mechanical fatigue of shape memory alloys.



Chao Yu is Professor of Mechanics at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He received his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2015. At present, he is Member of Intelligent Composite Materials Special Committee of Chinese Society of Composite Materials. His research activities focus on multi-field coupled constitutive models of materials, including shape memory alloys, ferromagnetic shape memory alloys and polymers.Qianhua Kan is Professor and Deputy Director of the School of Mechanics and Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He received his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2009. At present, he serves as Member of the Youth Working Committee and the 5th History and Methodology of Mechanics Specialized Committee of Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Member of the Intelligent Composite Materials Special Committee of Chinese Society of Composite Materials, Vice Chairman of Youth Working Committee of Sichuan Society in Mechanics, etc. His interested research fields include multi-coupled cyclic plasticity and fatigue failure of engineering materials, wheel-rail rolling contact fatigue,as well as the