1. Home
  2. Materials
  3. Studies and properties of metals
  4. Shape Memory Alloys - Technology and Industrial Applications

  5. Glossary

Article | REF: M530 V3

Shape Memory Alloys - Technology and Industrial Applications

Authors: Alain HAUTCOEUR, Étienne PATOOR, André EBERHARDT

Publication date: September 10, 2024

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!

Français

8. Glossary

Betatisation; betatization

Heat treatment used in copper-base alloys consisting of high-temperature heating in the beta phase, followed by quenching to preserve the metastable beta phase at room temperature.

Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)

Thermal analysis technique used to characterize phase transformations and determine transformation temperatures.

Packaging; training

Treatment consisting in cold forming a shape memory element, also known as education.

Martensite dismantling; martensite detwinning

Deformation mechanism involving the mobility of intervariant interfaces in a self-accommodating microstructure to promote the growth of the variant that is best oriented with respect to the applied stress. This...

You do not have access to this resource.

Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!

The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference

A Comprehensive Knowledge Base, with over 1,200 authors and 100 scientific advisors
+ More than 10,000 articles and 1,000 how-to sheets, over 800 new or updated articles every year
From design to prototyping, right through to industrialization, the reference for securing the development of your industrial projects

This article is included in

Studies and properties of metals

This offer includes:

Knowledge Base

Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees

Services

A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources

Practical Path

Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills

Doc & Quiz

Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading

Subscribe now!

Ongoing reading
Glossary
Outline