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Sheng Xu (Tohoku University) is currently spending some months at Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials in Düsseldorf and Peter Anderson (The Ohio State University) with us in Bochum. We took the opportunity to organize a small seminar on shape memory alloys. Sheng was reporting on his recent highly respected works on Ti-Al-Cr-based shape memory alloys and Peter about extreme deformation processing of NiTi.

The contributions were complemented by work from Bochum with an assessment of fatigue aspects in shape memory alloys by Jan Frenzel (RUB) and a presentation of recent successes in commercialization of NiTi shape memory alloys in numerous different fields given by Burkhard Maaß (Ingpuls). We thank all contributors and attendees for the fruitful presentations and discussion.