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Method of making composite structure having a porous shape-memory component

US5482574A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 4, 1994
Grant dateJan 9, 1996
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Expiry dateOct 4, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC21D10/00
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A shape-memory alloy material is liquefied by heating for casting into sts that are coated with an adherent material and collected into a preshaped porous mass so as to assume a preshaped configuration and be restored thereto under selected temperature conditions. When installed into a composite structure, the preshaped porous mass endows the composite structure with the shape-memory properties of the strips.

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