High hardness, high elasticity intermetallic compounds for mechanical components

• Main Authors: Stanford, Malcolm K, DellaCorte, Christopher, Noebe, Ronald D, Thomas, Fransua, Bigelow, Glen
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.07.2019
• Subjects: ALLOYS; CHEMISTRY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; METALLURGY; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS

One or more substitutional elements may be used to reduce the solution treatment temperature and required quench rates for hardening of 60-NITINOL. The advantages of modified NITINOL include that less energy is consumed during the heat treatment process, the material is subjected to less thermal dis...