Low-density open-cell foams in the NiTi system
- 21 April 2003
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 82 (16), 2727-2729
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1569036
Abstract
It is shown that open-cell metallic foams having very low density, and that display martensite transformations required for shape memory and superelastic behavior, can be fabricated using a powder-metallurgy technique. Results are presented on experiments in which a polymeric precursor foam was coated with an equiatomic NiTi powderslurry and subsequently sintered to yield foams with relative densities as low as 0.039. Although contaminated with interstitial impurities, they displayed unambiguous calorimetric signature of the B 2→ B 19 ′ transformation. The results are of considerable significance to potential applications requiring ultralightweight structures with the unusual dissipative and strain-recovery properties of NiTi shape-memorymaterials.Keywords
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