“…Tel. : +54-341-4853200; fax: +54-341-4218834 E-mail address: druker@ifir-conicet.gov.ar investigations have followed, for example Sato et al (1984Sato et al ( , 1986, Otsuka et al (1990), Watanabe et al (1993), Gu et al(1994), Kajiwara et al (1999Kajiwara et al ( , 2001, Wang et al(2001), Baruj et al (2004), Stanford and Dunne (2006), Wen et al (2010Wen et al ( , 2011, Min et al (2012). The shape memory effect (SME) is due to a reversible (austenite, FCC) (martensite, HCP) martensitic transformation that is carried out by the selective movement of a/6 [112] Shockley partial dislocations belonging to a single variant, on the {111} planes of the austenite.…”