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Dimitrios A Exarchos1, Panagiota T Dalla2, Ilias K Tragazikis3

  • 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece. dexarch@cc.uoi.gr.

Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
|May 23, 2018
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This study enhances aluminum structures for aerospace using Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) coatings. Heating these coatings relaxes stress, improving structural integrity, stiffness, and rigidity for safer flight.

Keywords:
Ni–Ticoatingdfferential scanning calorimetry (DSC)shape memory alloys (SMAs)shape memory effect (SME)

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