Shape memory materials are among several smart materials being investigated for a wide range of applications, including "self-healing" tribological surfaces.
Then the different strategies employed for the self-healing of cementitious materials, i.e. the use of hollow fibers, microencapsulation, expansive agents and mineral admixtures, bacteria and shape memory materials, are reviewed and summarized.
A three-dimensional crystal-mechanics based model for the thermo-mechanically coupled superelastic response of initially-textured polycrystalline shape-memory materials is used to simulate the response of Ti-Ni shape-memory alloy in sheet form.
A novel supramolecular shape memory material was prepared based on partial α-CD PEG inclusion complex, which contains α-CD PEG inclusion complexlites as a fixing phase and naked PEG crystallites as a reversible phase.
In fact, the actual contribution of MTL regions (e.g., amygdale and hippocampus) to memory for emotional materials is not well understood.
Although shape memory alloys have recently been demonstrated as self-healing tribological surfaces, the wear resistance of the shape memory materials alone is usually not as good as conventional hard coatings.
First, whereas memory for simple arbitrary materials is almost always worse in older adults than in younger adults, memory for meaningful materials is often excellent in older adults.
Phase-change memory (PCM) material is the promising material system for nonvolatile-memory technology.
While in most stimulus-responsive materials, the result is limited to a change in their certain physical/chemical properties, stimulus-responsive shape memory materials (SMMs) are able to recover their original shape, after being quasi-plastically distorted.
Anderson (1983, p.285) made the following claim about elaboration: "One of the most potent manipulations that can be performed in terms of increasing a subject's memory for material is to have the subject elaborate on the to-be-remembered material".
One of these developments in smart materials is shape memory applications.
