Starting from the basic principles of the martensitic transformation, on which the shape memory effect and the superelasticity of alloys are based, the mechanisms of the two phenomena are clearly ...
A recent article in Materials & Design presented an in-situ study of compression creep and stress relaxation in a Fe-based ...
They can also be used directly as actuators, for example when shape memory alloys return to their predetermined shape in ...
The researchers achieved this by using shape memory alloys (SMAs ... The current findings utilized the shape memory effect of ...
Texas A&M University and Sandia National Laboratories researchers advance new joining technology - ILMs - using 3D printing.