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Three-Dimensional Printing of Shape Memory Alloys

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A novel variant of the three-dimensional printing technique has been developed and used to manufacture NiTi parts. Instead of metal powder the process uses granules, which consist of a mixture of metal powder and organic binder. These granules are spread on a working table. Then a solvent is dispensed with a printer head to consolidate a selected area of the granule bed and the table is moved down. The "solvent on granule" printing process is repeated until a threedimensional green body is obtained. The green part is finally debinded and sintered to obtain a dense and fully metallic part. NiTi parts have been successfully produced by this technique with densities of about 95% of the theoretical density. Detailed information on the microstructure has been obtained by X ray diffraction. Sintered parts exhibit shape memory effect, which has been measured during thermal cycling under tensile stress.

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Materials Science Forum (Volumes 534-536)

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477-480

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.534-536.477

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January 2007

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Efrain Carreño-Morelli, Sebastien Martinerie, J. Eric Bidaux

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3D Printing, NiTi, Shape Memory Alloy Actuator, Solid Freeform Fabrication

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