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Many surface related properties, such as surface roughness, surface tension and reflection etc are heavily dependent on the surface morphology of materials. Patterned surfaces may have significant effects on these properties. In this paper, we compare wrinkles produced atop three different types...
- Smart Materials Respond to Changing Environments. Sidawi, Danielle // R&D Magazine;Mar2005, Vol. 47 Issue 3, p24
Presents information on studies being done on piezoelectric, magnetostrictive, and shape memory alloys (SMA), the classes of smart material systems. Research effort being conducted on piezoelectric motors and ferroelectric materials; Development of a polymer platform technology that can confer...
- Recent Developments in the Field of Shape Memory Epoxy Foams. Loredana Santo // Materials Science Forum;2014, Vol. 783-786, p2523
Shape memory epoxy foams are a new class of materials for aerospace applications as light actuators, structural parts with reduced size during transport, and expandable/deployable structures. They were tested in an experiment onboard of the International Space Station in May 2011 (Shuttle...
- PART I: 'Smart metals' providing actuation, sealing, and completion functions downhole. // Offshore;Dec2001, Vol. 61 Issue 12, p58
Explores the growing applications of smart metals or shape metal alloys (SMA) in petroleum industry. Functions of the SMA; Limitations of the SMA applications in the petroleum industry; Actuation application of smart metals.
- Influence of structural transition on transport and optical properties of Ni[sub 2]MnGa alloy. Zhou, Y.; Jin, Xuesong; Xu, Huibin; Kudryavtsev, Y. V.; Lee, Y. P.; Rhee, J. Y. // Journal of Applied Physics;6/15/2002, Vol. 91 Issue 12, p9894
The transport and optical properties of Ni[sub 2]MnGa alloy in the martensitic and austenitic states were investigated. The dependence of the temperature coefficient of resistivity on temperature shows kinks at the structural and ferroparamagnetic transitions. Electron-magnon and electron-phonon...
- Mechanomagnetic spectroscopy of phase transitions in ferromagnetic shape memory alloys. Kustov, Sergey; Masdeu, Francesc; Cesari, Eduard // Applied Physics Letters;8/7/2006, Vol. 89 Issue 6, p061917
A technique for direct experimental investigations of coupling between applied elastic stress and magnetic response in ferromagnetic shape memory alloys over the temperature ranges of paramagnetic to ferromagnetic and martensitic transformations has been developed, based on the inverse...
- Numerical Analysis of Piezoelectric Active Repair in the Presence of Frictional Contact Conditions. Alaimo, Andrea; Milazzo, Alberto; Orlando, Calogero; Messineo, Antonio // Sensors (14248220);Apr2013, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p4390
The increasing development of smart materials, such as piezoelectric and shape memory alloys, has opened new opportunities for improving repair techniques. Particularly, active repairs, based on the converse piezoelectric effect, can increase the life of a structure by reducing the crack...
- NANOINTELLIGENT MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS. WANLIN GUO; CHUN TANG; YUFENG GUO // International Journal of Nanoscience;Dec2006, Vol. 5 Issue 6, p671
Domain switch, phase transition and electrochemical mechanisms introduced traditional smart materials to various technologies such as piezoelectric ceramics, shape memory alloys and elastor/polymer used in actuators, sensors, etc. From the studies on carbon nanotues, graphite and other...
- An Open-Loop Control Approach for Magnetic Shape Memory Actuators Considering Temperature Variations. Schlüter, Kathrin; Riccardi, Leonardo; Raatz, Annika // Advances in Science & Technology;2013, Vol. 78, p119
Magnetic shape memory alloys (MSMA) offer remarkable potentials for actuation purposes because of a large achievable strain and a short response time. But, apart from these advantages, MSMA show a hysteretic behavior between the input and output quantities. Hysteretic phenomena represent an...
