April 2015 Issue of Advanced Materials & Processes, featuring: Materials Characterization Powder Metal Testing; Strain Measurement Techniques; Failure Analysis Case Studies; Metallurgy Lane Titanium Part II
Arquimea Ingenieria, Spain, reports that its engineers have developed a flexible exo-muscular system based on shape memory alloy actuators to assist astronauts in microgravity.
Admedes Schuessler, Germany, reports that its Blue Oxide surface treatment for controlled thermal oxidation creates a 15- to 100-nm oxide layer on Nitinol with pure and dense TiO2, without causing performance-fading byproducts.