Marvelous bending/straightening effects of two-way shape memory alloy (TWSMA) help their employment in design and manufacturing of new medical appliances. Constrained ageing with bending load scheme can induce two-way shape memory effect (TWSME). Scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis, electrical resistivity measurement (ERM) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) are employed to dete...

The magnetocaloric effect that originates from the martensitic transition in the ferromagnetic Ni-Mn-Ga shape-memory alloy is studied. We show that this effect is controlled by the magnetostructural coupling at both the martensitic variant and magnetic domain length scales. A large entropy change induced by moderate magnetic fields is obtained for alloys in which the magnetic moment of the two ...

The significant effect of an external dc magnetic field on the splashing behavior ethanol drops impacting unstructured (flat) surface soft magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs) is reported. Weber number corresponding to transition between deposition and regime reduced by ?20% in a moderate ?300 mT. Alongside this effect, two-fold increase initial deceleration ejection sheet observed for softest sampl...