Objective: Explore and develop lightweight structural concepts married with advanced “smart” materials to achieve a wide variety of benefits in airframe and engine components Three concepts are being married: 1.Cellular (lattice) structures 2.Auxetic structural concepts 3.Shape memory alloys June 5-7, 2012 NASA Aeronautics Mission Directorate FY11 Seedling Phase I Technical Seminar 2 Innovative aspects: •First ever study of lattice structures made from an SMA •First ever auxetic structures made from an aerospace structural alloy, and from an SMA •First ever superelastic cellular structure. •SMA actuation technology will be extended from one- to three-dimensional actuation.
Three Dimensional Cellular Structures Enhanced By Shape Memory Alloys
2012
46 pages
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