Temperature and velocity vary considerably within the jet, because of several factors. The most significant of these is the difference in temperature between the hot core of the jet and its relatively cold surrounding environment.
For the first time in North America, a special symposium dedicated to this emerging thermal spray process will bring together scientists and engineers from academia, national laboratories, and industry for a two-day information-exchange event.
The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and the Singapore University of Technology and Design, report that researchers have demonstrated a four-dimensional printing technology that enables complex self-folding structures.
Lumenous Device Technologies, Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed Gloss nitinol wire, which eliminates or reduces the need for mechanical polishing and electropolishing, thereby streamlining the manufacturing process.
Saarland University, Germany, reports that its engineers have developed a bionic hand that is based on bundled nitinol wires activated by electricity.
