"You picked the most conventional materials and then you put them in conventional shapes".
It is also unique that the alloy exhibited transformation-induced strains in the same direction of the applied stress for both the forward and the reverse transformations, in contrast to conventional shape memory alloys.
In a conventional shape-memory polymer, the material is temporarily deformed and then returned to its original shape by direct heating.
Its avant-garde design led to a prolonged hide-and-seek between SWAT team members and the gunman in a building that defies conventional shape.
This approach eliminates the mesh distortion present in conventional Lagrangian shape optimization methods, as well as the need for remeshing.
His "Wart Cup," for instance, is an endearingly homely little thing of conventional shape and multiple colors, studded in several places with droopy warts.
Along with interests in conventional "dual-shape" SMPs that can recover from one temporary shape to the permanent shape, multi-shape SMPs that can fix more than one temporary shapes and recover sequentially from one temporary shape to another and eventually to the permanent shape, have started to attract increasing attention.
In addition to more conventional shapes, there is a pair of Qing dynasty cockerels (lot 470, $8,000 to $12,000), a 19th-century cabbage-form vessel with a snake spout and handle (included in lot 502, $9,000 to $15,000), a Staffordshire glazed stoneware squirrel teapot (lot 247, $4,000 to $6,000) and a matching camel (lot 248, $2,000 to $3,000).
Design improvements, in model scale, are measured by comparing, by means of dedicated fully resolved RANSE calculations, the performance of the optimized geometries with those of conventional shapes available in literature.
The proposed technique makes it possible to eliminate the discrepancy which exists between element forces and the assumed deformation shape in conventional models.
