Fabrication of NiTi through additive manufacturing: A review

M Elahinia, NS Moghaddam, MT Andani… - Progress in Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
Nickel-titanium (NiTi) is an attractive alloy due to its unique functional properties (ie, shape
memory effect and superelasticity behaviors), low stiffness, biocompatibility, damping …

Laser additive manufacturing of bulk and porous shape-memory NiTi alloys: From processes to potential biomedical applications

S Dadbakhsh, M Speirs, J Van Humbeeck, JP Kruth - MRS bulletin, 2016 - cambridge.org
NiTi alloys are well known not only due to their exceptional shape-memory ability to recover
their primary shape, but also because they show high ductility, excellent corrosion and wear …

Anisotropic microstructure and superelasticity of additive manufactured NiTi alloy bulk builds using laser directed energy deposition

BA Bimber, RF Hamilton, J Keist, TA Palmer - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The microstructure and superelasticity in additive manufactured NiTi shape memory alloys
(SMAs) were investigated. Using elementally blended Ni and Ti powder feedstock, Ni-rich …

The role of CaH2 in preventing oxidation for the production of single-phase NiTi alloy in solid state

HHM Zaki, J Abdullah - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2016 - Elsevier
Single-phase NiTi synthesized from Ni and TiH 2 powders was successfully formed in a
solid-state reducing environment of CaH 2. A comparison was done with a specimen …