Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) are unique materials that exhibit shape memory behavior, which is exemplified by the ability recover large deformations due to changes in external loading conditions, ...

Exciting advances in space exploration are underway as NASA tests revolutionary shape memory alloy (SMA) spring tires ...

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University in collaboration with colleagues have engineered 3D-printed biodegradable ...

NASA has successfully tested innovative shape memory alloy spring tires for Mars rovers, enhancing durability on rugged terrain. Shape memory alloys are metals that return to their original shape ...

Nitinol is a kind of wire that has a memory. If you heat it, it tries to return to the shape it remembers. [Latheman666] recently posted a video (see below) of a Nitinol engine that uses a ...

Russian cosmonauts are set to carry out the first-ever experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) this year to test a shape memory synthetic plate coated with cellular material ...

American space agency NASA is looking into nickel-titanium as a potential material for future planetary rovers wheels, ...

Shape memory alloys are metals that can return to their original shape after being bent ... in bringing the science and understanding of how you change the alloy compositions, how you change the ...

NASA's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring ... metal system," Santo Padula, a materials research engineer at NASA ...