Nickel titanium
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Nickel titanium, also known as nitinol, is a metal alloy of nickel and titanium, where the two elements are present in roughly equal atomic percentages. Nitinol alloys are named according to the weigh
Nitinol wires
3D view of austenite and martensite structures of the NiTi compound.
2D view of nitinol's crystalline structure during cooling/heating cycle
The effect of nitinol composition on the Ms temperature.
Naval Ordnance Laboratory
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The Naval Ordnance Laboratory was a facility in the White Oak area of Montgomery County, Maryland. The location is now used as the headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Nickel titanium
…1950s, William J. Buehler was tasked with finding alloys with high resistance to fatigue under high temperatures to be used in missile nose cones at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1959. In 1961, they presented a sample at a laboratory management meeting. The sample, folded up like an accordion, was passed around and flexed by…
1960s-era postcard
A campus building rebuilt as Food and Drug Administration headquarters