• metallurgy, a shape-memory alloy (SMA) is an alloy that can be deformed when cold but returns to its pre-deformed ("remembered") shape when heated. It...
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  • A magnetic shape-memory alloy (MSMA) is a type of smart material that can undergo significant and reversible changes in shape in response to a magnetic...
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    Nickel titanium (category Nickel–titanium alloys)
    Nitinol alloys exhibit two closely related and unique properties: the shape memory effect and superelasticity (also called pseudoelasticity). Shape memory is...
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  • Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) are polymeric smart materials that have the ability to return from a deformed state (temporary shape) to their original (permanent)...
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  • engine turbine blades Nisil (silicon) Nitinol (titanium, shape memory alloy) Magnetically "soft" alloys Mu-metal (iron) Permalloy (iron, molybdenum) Supermalloy...
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    properties. A shape-memory alloy (SMA) is an alloy that "remembers" its original shape and when deformed returns to its pre-deformed shape when heated....
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    1590/S2176-94512013000400007. PMID 24262415. TechXpress.net. "Shape Memory Alloy - Nitinol Shape Memory". jmmedical.com. Retrieved 2017-02-25. Stoyanova-Ivanova...
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  • Shape-memory coupling is a system for connecting pipes using shape-memory alloys. In its typical form the technique uses an internally ribbed sleeve of...
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    shape memory alloys in Bio-Medical Sector (medical devices), especially the stent market for which the company will manufacture shape memory alloys and...
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  • austenitic and martensitic phases of a crystal. It is exhibited in shape-memory alloys. Pseudoelasticity is from the reversible motion of domain boundaries...
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  • produces semi-finished products, components, and devices in shape memory alloy, and a special alloy made of nickel-titanium (NiTinol), characterized by super-elasticity...
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  • muscle. Shape-memory alloys (SMAs), liquid crystalline elastomers, and metallic alloys that can be deformed and then returned to their original shape when...
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  • the free dictionary. Niti can refer to: Nickel titanium alloy or Nitinol Shape memory alloy Niti Valley and Niti Pass in the Indian state of Uttarakhand...
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  • Plasticity and Composites Science and Technology as well as books such as Shape Memory Alloys: Modeling and Engineering Applications and Active Origami: Modeling...
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    complex and untethered robots. Shape memory alloys are the materials that are able to memorize and recover to its original shape after significant deformations...
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  • magnetic actuators can use magnetic shape-memory alloys. A soft actuator is made of a flexible material that changes its shape in response to stimuli including...
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  • prolonged stress. Memory foam, a material that molds to the shape of a warm body but returns to its original shape on cooling Shape-memory alloy can be deformed...
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  • R-Phase (category Nickel alloys)
    in nitinol, a shape-memory alloy. It is a martensitic phase in nature, but is not the martensite that is responsible for the shape memory and superelastic...
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  • A shape-memory material is a material that can be deformed and can return to its previous shape: Shape-memory alloys Shape-memory polymers This disambiguation...
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  • Spangold (category Precious metal alloys)
    Spangold is a family of shape memory-effect alloys (SME) of gold, copper, and aluminum in either 18K or 23K. The name of the family is a play on the word...
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    ferroelectric materials, as well as in the deformation of rubber bands and shape-memory alloys and many other natural phenomena. In natural systems, it is often...
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  • Nitinol biocompatibility (category Nickel–titanium alloys)
    applications. Nitinol (NiTi), which is formed by alloying nickel and titanium (~ 50% Ni), is a shape-memory alloy with superelastic properties more similar to...
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  • that bend, expand or contract when a voltage is applied. Shape-memory alloys and shape-memory polymers are materials in which large deformation can be...
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    that would prevent the use of valves. Nitinol is a biocompatible shape-memory alloy. Both of these techniques are associated with adverse effects, including...
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  • Staunton Military Academy, Charles Town, Virginia, US Shape-memory alloy, that returns to its shape when heated Signal magnitude area, a statistical measure...
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    reducing fuel consumption. The Air Force Research Laboratory looked into shape-memory alloy for speed-dependent vortex generators. The C-5 is a large, high-wing...
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    of analytical models with experimental results for shape memory alloys, and use of shape memory alloy actuators for tracking helicopter rotor blades in-flight...
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  • transition or the reorientation of the material's crystalline structure. Shape memory alloys (SMAs) have the elastocaloric effect. This effect is closely connected...
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    storage e.g. AB5 compounds (nickel metal hydride batteries) Shape memory alloys e.g. Cu-Al-Ni (alloys of Cu3Al and nickel), Nitinol (NiTi) Coating materials...
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    success with intrathoracic cases, especially using nitinol, a type of shape memory alloy composed of nickel and titanium. Potential problems include stent...
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