Review and perspectives: shape memory alloy composite systems

BT Lester, T Baxevanis, Y Chemisky, DC Lagoudas - Acta Mechanica, 2015 - Springer
Following their discovery in the early 1960s, there has been a continuous quest for ways to
take advantage of the extraordinary properties of shape memory alloys (SMAs). These …

NiTi Shape Memory Alloy: Unraveling the Role of Internal Friction in Passive Damping-A Review

R Radhamani, M Balakrishnan - Materials Today Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Shape memory alloys (SMA) fabricated from nickel-titanium (NiTi) have garnered significant
attention due to their intrinsic properties, including the shape memory effect (SME) …

Effects of microstructure on the mechanical properties of Ti2AlC in compression

R Benitez, H Gao, M O'Neal, P Lovelace, G Proust… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
This study investigates the effect of microstructure, specifically the grain size and TiAl x
impurity, on the compressive strength and hysteretic behavior of Ti 2 AlC at room …

Fabrication of NiTi and NiTi-nano Al2O3 composites by powder metallurgy methods: Comparison of hot isostatic pressing and spark plasma sintering techniques

M Farvizi, MK Javan, MR Akbarpour, HS Kim - Ceramics International, 2018 - Elsevier
To escape the detrimental effect of NiTi matrix decomposition on hot-isostatic-pressing (HIP)-
processed NiTi-nano alumina composites, which leads to the formation of NiTi 2/Ni 3 Ti …

Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Composites Obtained by Spark Plasma Sintering of Ti3SiC2-15 vol.%Cu Mixtures

R Zhang, B Chen, F Liu, M Sun, H Zhang, C Wu - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Method of soft metal (Cu) strengthening of Ti3SiC2 was conducted to increase the hardness
and improve the wear resistance of Ti3SiC2. Ti3SiC2/Cu composites containing 15 vol.% Cu …

Roles of silicon-layer in Ti3SiC2 materials response to helium irradiation: New insights from first-principles calculation

HF Zhang, BD Yao, LQ Shi, DJ O'Connor, J Huang… - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Using the first-principles method based on density functional theory, the effect of helium
irradiation on Ti 3 SiC 2 has been investigated. It was observed that helium atoms prefer to …

Fabrication and characterization of NiTi/Ti3SiC2 and NiTi/Ti2AlC composites

L Hu, A Kothalkar, G Proust, I Karaman… - Journal of alloys and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Spark plasma sintering (SPS) was used as a fast consolidation technique to reduce
reactions during powder consolidation of highly reactive systems (shape memory …

Synthesis and tribological behavior of novel Ag-and Bi-based composites reinforced with Ti3SiC2

F AlAnazi, S Ghosh, R Dunnigan, S Gupta - Wear, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper reports the synthesis and characterization of Bi-Ti 3 SiC 2 and Ag-Ti 3 SiC 2
composites. Novel composites were designed by adding 5 vol%(Ag-5% 312Si or Bi-5 …

High-performance metal/carbide composites with far-from-equilibrium compositions and controlled microstructures

L Hu, M O'Neil, V Erturun, R Benitez, G Proust… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The prospect of extending existing metal-ceramic composites to those with the compositions
that are far from thermodynamic equilibrium is examined. A current and pressure-assisted …

Interfacial study of NiTi–Ti3SiC2 solid state diffusion bonded joints

A Kothalkar, A Cerit, G Proust, S Basu… - Materials Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The interfaces between the stress-assisted diffusion bonded Ti 3 SiC 2 and equiatomic NiTi,
two distinct material systems that show pseudoelasticity were studied. The interfaces were …