Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are metallic materials capable of undergoing reversible, diffusionless phase changes that enable two hallmark behaviours: the shape memory effect and superelasticity. In the ...

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) exhibit unique thermomechanical behaviour, recovering predefined shapes through reversible martensitic phase transformations. When integrated into composite laminates, ...

Researchers used an Artificial Intelligence Materials Selection framework (AIMS) to discover a new shape memory alloy. The shape memory alloy showed the highest efficiency during operation achieved ...

Laser powder bed fusion, a 3D-printing technique, offers potential in the manufacturing industry, particularly when fabricating nickel-titanium shape memory alloys with complex geometries. Although ...

In the early 1960s, scientists discovered Nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy with a shape memory effect. This remarkable material can be bent or deformed when cool but returns to its original shape when ...

Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize Our Engineering Future (DMREF) Program, researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A ...