You’ve likely heard of Nitinol wire before, but we suspect the common base knowledge doesn’t go much beyond repeating that it’s a shape-memory alloy. [Bill Hammack], the Engineer Guy, takes us on a ...
Nitinol's name is derived from its alloy composition and place of discovery; Nickel Titanium and the Naval Ordinance Laboratory in America. In 1959, William J Buehler attempted to design better ...
A German research team has prototyped an extraordinary heating/cooling system that stresses and unloads nickel-titanium "muscle wires" to create heated and cooled air at twice the efficiency of a heat ...
You’ve likely heard of Nitinol wire before, but we suspect the common base knowledge doesn’t go much beyond repeating that it’s a shape-memory alloy. [Bill Hammack], the Engineer Guy, takes us on a ...
Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A metal that can move on its own will play a key role in NASA’s next voyage to Mars A metal that can move on its ...
The Ohio-based Smart Tire Company has unveiled its shape memory airless bicycle tires called METL, utilizing cutting-edge technology originally developed by NASA. These never-go-flat airless tires are ...
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