They exhibit some macroscopic phenomena not present in traditional materials such as shape memory effect, hysteresis, pseudoelasticity and alterable damping capacity.

• 由于具有独特的形状记忆效应、滞后性能、变阻尼特性和相变伪弹性等诸多智能功能,形状记忆合金已经成为引人注目的新型功能材料之一。