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Memory Behavior (memory + behavior)
Selected AbstractsSize Independent Shape Memory Behavior of Nickel,Titanium,ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS, Issue 8 2010Blythe G. Clark While shape memory alloys such as NiTi have strong potential as active materials in many small-scale applications, much is still unknown about their shape memory and deformation behavior as size scale is reduced. This paper reports on two sets of experiments which shed light onto an inconsistent body of research regarding the behavior of NiTi at the nano- to microscale. In situ SEM pillar bending experiments directly show that the shape memory behavior of NiTi is still present for pillar diameters as small as 200,nm. Uniaxial pillar compression experiments demonstrate that plasticity of the phase transformation in NiTi is size independent and, in contrast to bulk single crystal observations, is not influenced by heat treatment (i.e., precipitate structure). [source] Study of the influence of bias and matching networks on the distortion and memory of FET-based power amplifiersINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RF AND MICROWAVE COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING, Issue 6 2008Jon Santiago Abstract A study of the influence of bias and matching networks on the distortion and memory in FET-based power amplifiers has been carried out at the device and amplifier circuit levels. The study includes simulated and experimental results that allow us to identify effects produced by the introduction of particular biasing and matching networks in the power amplifier design. The influence of the bias point, as well as of biasing and matching network topologies on the nonlinear, short- and long-term memory behavior has been studied by means of simulations and measurements, using different power amplifier prototypes. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2008. [source] Melt spun thermoresponsive shape memory fibers based on polyurethanes: Effect of drawing and heat-setting on fiber morphology and propertiesJOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE, Issue 4 2007Jasmeet Kaursoin Abstract Thermoresponsive shape memory (SMP) fibers were prepared by melt spinning from a polyester polyol-based polyurethane shape memory polymer (SMP) and were subjected to different postspinning operations to modify their structure. The effect of drawing and heat-setting operations on the shape memory behavior, mechanical properties, and structure of the fibers was studied. In contrast to the as-spun fibers, which were found to show low stress built up on straining to temporary shape and incomplete recovery to the permanent shape, the drawn and heat-set fibers showed significantly higher stresses and complete recovery. The fibers drawn at a DR of 3.0 and heat-set at 100°C gave stress values that were about 10 times higher than the as-spun fibers at the same strain and showed complete recovery on repeated cycling. This improvement was likely due to the transformation brought about in the morphology of the permanent shape of the SMP fibers from randomly oriented weakly linked regions of hard and soft segments to the well-segregated, oriented and strongly H-bonded regions of hard-segments. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 103: 2172,2182, 2007 [source] | ||||||||||