Morphological study on twisted NiTi wires for smart composite systems

Materials Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 364-368

  Lau, Kin tak ^a   Tam, Wai yin ^a   Meng, Xiang long ^a,b   Zhou, Li min ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bonding behaviour; Smart composites; Twisted wire

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIRE;

TWISTED WIRES;

NICKEL ALLOYS;

EID: 0036890152     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-577X(02)00793-0     Document Type: Article

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