The graph shows the time-temperature-transformation (TTT) curve for an unstabilized 430-type alloy with carbon plus nitrogen of 0.08%.
Juno Visits Jupiter
On July 4, NASA’s Juno spacecraft, about the size of a bus, entered orbit (about 3100 miles from the surface) around the gas giant Jupiter, which is 1.76 billion miles from Earth.
SMST announces $50,000 award for graduate students doing research on Nitinol
The International Organization on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technology (SMST), an Affiliate Society of ASM International, Cleveland, announces a $50,000 Fellowship award sponsored by Edwards LifeScience for a graduate student doing research on shape memory materials such as Nitinol.
Shape-memory polymers exhibit triple shape-memory behavior
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., reports that a team of researchers from ORNL, Washington State University, and the University of Idaho, have developed shape-memory polymers that exhibit triple-shape-memory behavior, meaning that the polymers can transform from one temporary shape to another at one temperature, and then back to a permanent shape at a different temperature.
Electric field can instantly switch shape-memory graphene oxide film
Monash University, Australia, announces that its engineering team has developed graphene oxide material that is one nanometer thick whose shape can be changed almost instantaneously by an electric field.