Materials with Shape Memory Effect for Applications in Maritime

NiTi Shape Memory Alloys, Promising Materials in Orthopedic Applications

Development of Ferroelectric Materials for Memory Applications

A detailed investigation on the electrical, structural and fatigue characteristics of thin film ferroelectric memory devices fabricated from potassium nitrate-phase I11 (KN03-111) was conducted at Michigan Technological University under a grant from Ramtron Corporation, Colorado Springs, Colorado. This research involved: (1) fabrication and processing of 16x16 (256 bit) capacitor type memory de...

Magnetic Shape Memory Actuators for Fluidic Applications

Magnetic Shape Memory (MSM) actuators represent a new type of smart electromagnetic actuators where the MSM material elongates and contracts in a magnetic field. The MSM material has the ability to change its size or shape very fast and many million times repeatedly. Based on internally designed and produced Magnetic Shape Memory materials, the ETO GROUP has developed its new MAGNETOSHAPE® tech...

Industrial Applications for Shape Memory Alloys

Although medical applications for shape memory alloys (SMA) now dominate in today’s market, there are many applications in the industrial sector which have reached large volume production that far surpass the material usage in the medical fields. In the early growth of shape memory alloy technology the most important applications were for fasteners and couplings, mainly in the military sector. ...

Shape Memory Materials : State of the Art and Requirements for Future Applications

NiTi is only one of many alloy systems that exhibit the shape memory effect. The reason of his success is only the fact that it is the best in many aspects. His large market share created a significant price reduction so that in combination with its good properties, it became a preferential alloy even when compared with Cu-based alloys. Moreover NiTi alloys can be easily tuned to optimal perfor...