Nitinol manufacturing processNitinol is extremely difficult to manufacture due to the extremely tight compositional control required and the enormous reactivity of titanium. Every titanium atom bonded to oxygen or carbon is an atom taken away from the NiTi lattice, changing the composition and makin
Remember the 80's movie Flashdance? Lead actress Jennifer Beals was a welder by day at a steel mill in Pittsburgh, and for many, this was the first time they saw a welder's profession.Jennifer does make welding look glamorous, although the movie, not to mention Jen's skills as a welder, has been pan
Welding is a manufacturing process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by using high temperatures to melt the parts together and allowing them to cool, causing fusion. Welding differs from cryogenic techniques such as brazing, which do not melt the base metal (parent metal).In ad
Nickel titanium, also known as nitinol, is a metal alloy of nickel and titanium in which the atomic percentages of the two elements are approximately equal. The different alloys are named according to the weight percent of nickel; for example, Nitinol 55 and Nitinol 60. It exhibits shape memory effe
Nickel (Ni) is a chemical element located in group 10 and period 4 of the periodic table. It shares its 4th cycle with other important biological elements such as Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca), Manganese (Mn), Iron (Fe), Cobalt (Co), Nickel (Ni). Nickel belongs to the d zone and is solid at (room temp