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Shape memory materials are a kind of smart materials which recently have been used in a wide range of fields in particular medicine and aerospace. These materials can be divided to shape memory polymers and shape memory alloys. The basis of shape memory alloys’ properties is a thermoelastic martensitic transformation taking place between a high symmetric phase, called Austenite, and a low symmetric phase, called Martensite. In this project, by means of finite element methods, continuum thermomechanics and selection of appropriate internal variables (such as amount and orientation of volumetric fraction of each phase) and control variables (like strain, stress, temperature and entropy), their... 

Machining in its general concept forms the major part of manufacturing processes regarding time and cost. Therefore any progress in machining techniques would be well beneficial. High speed machining is one of the recent concepts in machining technology which has attracted much attention and effort. But high speed spindles as the main part of high speed machines, have been notorious for their lack of reliability and sudden failure which originates mostly from thermal problems. In order to ensure reliable operation of spindles it is necessary to predict thermo-mechanical behavior of machine-tool spindles. The major sources of heat in a spindle are angular contact ball bearings (the most... 

Considering the environmental pollution caused by the consumption of fossil fuels, replacing clean and renewable energies instead of fossil fuels has become one of the most critical issues across the world. The use of energy geostructures, especially energy piles, to exchange the heat between the superstructures and the ground is one of the approaches for taking advantage of clean energy. In order to maintain the safety and the serviceability of structures built on energy piles, it is necessary to study the effects of heat exchange between energy piles and the ground on the mechanical behavior of energy piles, as well as the effects of various parameters on the interaction between energy...