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Advanced SMA Form and Function
Location: Chapel (Asilomar Conference Grounds )
(Please check final room assignments on-site).
Session Description: This session will focus on low-dimensional and low-density forms for shape memory materials, such as foams, thin films, and composites.

Session Chair:Prof David C. Dunand Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
10:05 AMCombinatorial Discovery of Quaternary Ti-Ni-Cu-Pd Shape Memory Alloys with "Zero" Thermal Hysteresis and Improved Functional Stability
10:20 AMTransformation Behavior of Ti-Ni-Ag and Ti-Ni-W Shape Memory Alloy Thin Films
10:35 AMProperty of Amorphous/Nanocrystalline Hybrid Wires of TiNi-Base Shape Memory Alloys
10:50 AMUsing Laser Ablation to Achieve Surface Form Memory in NiTi Shape Memory Alloys
11:05 AMBreak
11:15 AMNiTi Shape-Memory Foams
11:30 AMMechanical Properties of Highly Porous NiTi Alloys
11:45 AMMicrostructure and Dynamo-Mechanical Behavior of NiTi Sintered-Porous Sheets From Pre-Alloyed Powders
12:00 PMCharacterization of Net Shape, Fast Response, Nitinol Foam Shape Memory Actuators
12:15 PMLunch