Integrated shape memory alloy devices toward a high-performance glazed curtain wall seismic retrofit

A Pseudoelastic Floor Isolation System for Hospital Seismic Retrofitting

“…The scope is to study the mechanical response of the damper described in [14], investigating on shape-memory alloy physical peculiarities such as high strain recovery (known as shape memory effect) and recentering capabilities (due to pseudoelasticity) [16,17]. In detail, pseudoelasticity is a recoverable deformative process induced by a thermo-elastic transformation between two different solid phases, martensite and austenite.…”