MedShape Inc., Atlanta, announces FDA 510(k) clearance for its shape-memory PEEK ExoShape Femoral Soft Tissue Fastener for soft tissue graft fixation on the femoral side of the knee joint during anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructive surgery.
Allegheny Technologies NiTiNb shape memory alloy designed for coupling devices
Allegheny Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, offers its NiTiNb shape memory alloy for coupling devices that need cryogenic martensite transformation temperatures and also need room temperature storage capability.
Study will evaluate shape-memory alloy wires around concrete columns to prevent deterioration
A team of researchers from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering and Qatar University has won a $779,000 grant based on shape memory alloy reinforcements for deteriorating reinforced-concrete structures such as bridges.
Nanoindentation technique reveals phase transformation in magnetic shape memory alloys
Researchers at Texas A&M University, College Station, have examined stress-induced martensitic phase transformations in magnetic shape memory alloys via in-situ nanoindentation techniques.
Probing metal solidification nondestructively
Researches and collaborators at Los Alamos Laboratory (Los Alamos, N.M.) used nondestructive imaging techniques to study the solidification of metal alloy samples. The team used complementary methods of proton radiography at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) and synchrotron x-ray radiography at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to make the measurements. This is the first time that high-energy protons have been used to nondestructively image a large metal sample during melting and solidification.