F.C. Lovey

Research interests

Publications

• Shape memory alloys as an effective tool to damp oscillations

  Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry · 2015 · 10.1007/s10973-015-4405-7

• Built in dampers for stayed cables in bridges via SMA. The SMARTeR-ESF project: A mesoscopic and macroscopic experimental analysis with numerical simulations

  Engineering Structures · 2012 · 10.1016/j.engstruct.2012.11.011

• Pseudoelastic fatigue of NiTi wires: frequency and size effects on damping capacity

  Smart Materials and Structures · 2010 · 10.1088/0964-1726/19/8/085006

• Metastable effects on martensitic transformation in SMA

  Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry · 2009 · 10.1007/s10973-009-0613-3

• Metastable effects on martensitic transformation in SMA

  Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry · 2008 · 10.1007/s10973-007-8604-8

• The influence of temperature on the evolution of functional properties during pseudoelastic cycling of ultra fine grained NiTi

  Materials Science and Engineering A · 2007 · 10.1016/j.msea.2007.01.182

• Embedded Rh(1 wt.%)@Al2O3: Effects of high temperature and prolonged aging under methane partial oxidation conditions

  Applied Catalysis B: Environmental · 2006 · 10.1016/j.apcatb.2006.06.008

• Built in dampers for family homes via SMA: An ANSYS computation scheme based on mesoscopic and microscopic experimental analyses

  Engineering Structures · 2006 · 10.1016/j.engstruct.2006.08.028

• SMA for Dampers in Civil Engineering

  MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS · 2006 · 10.2320/matertrans.47.682

• Thermal and pseudoelastic cycling in Cu–14.1Al–4.2Ni (wt%) single crystals

  Acta Materialia · 2005 · 10.1016/j.actamat.2004.12.018

• Crystal phase dependent metal–support interactions in Pt/SO42−-ZrO2 catalysts for hydroconversion of n-alkanes

  Applied Catalysis A General · 2004 · 10.1016/j.apcata.2004.01.010

• Shape memory in Cu-based alloys: phenomenological behavior at the mesoscale level and interaction of martensitic transformation with structural defects in Cu-Zn-Al

  Progress in Materials Science · 1999 · 10.1016/s0079-6425(99)00004-3

• Magnetic properties of Cu–Mn–Al alloys with shape memory effect

  Acta Materialia · 1998 · 10.1016/s1359-6454(97)00224-3

• Martensitic transformation in Cu-Mn-Al alloys

  Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia · 1995 · 10.1016/0956-716x(95)00292-4

• Interaction of single variant martensitic transformation with small γ type precipitates in CuZnAl

  Acta Metallurgica et Materialia · 1994 · 10.1016/0956-7151(94)90500-2

• On the origin of the intrinsic thermoelasticity associated with a single-interface transformation in Cu-Zn-Al shape-memory alloys

  Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties · 1990 · 10.1080/01418619008235563

• Electron microscopy study of dislocations associated with thermal cycling in a CuZnAl shape memory alloy

  Acta Metallurgica et Materialia · 1990 · 10.1016/0956-7151(90)90287-q

• Plasticity in β phase Cu-Zn-Al alloys

  Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties · 1988 · 10.1080/01418618808214421

• The fault density in 9R type martensites: A comparison between experimental and calculated results

  Acta Metallurgica · 1987 · 10.1016/0001-6160(87)90057-5

• An electron-microscopy study of dislocation structures in fatigued Cu-Zn-Al shape-memory alloys

  Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties · 1987 · 10.1080/01418618708209908

• On the nature of various stacking defects in 18R martensite in CuAl alloys A study by high resolution electron microscopy

  physica status solidi (a) · 1984 · 10.1002/pssa.2210860212

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