A review on Nitinol shape memory alloy heat engines

• Published in: Smart materials and structures Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 13001 - 13021
• Main Authors: Abubakar, Rabiu Ahmad, Wang, Fan, Wang, Linxiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 01.01.2021
• Subjects: heat engine; martensite transformation; renewable energy; shape memory alloy; shape memory effect; thermo-mechanical energy conversion

Nitinol (NiTi) shape memory alloy (SMA) heat engine is a very promising candidate application of SMA since its invention, but yet to be put as commercial due to its low efficiency and performance. In this paper, a review of different types of NiTi SMA heat engine is presented. The review is done bas...