In railroad tracks, rail ties hold the rails in place and ensure that their separation does not change. Modern concrete ties ...

Led by civil and environmental engineering professor Bassem Andrawes from Grainger College of Engineering, the team used ...

The same space tires that allow the Mars rovers to get around might be coming to your driveway in the near future. Here's the ...

Fort Wayne Metals on Thursday announced it is working with NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to advance shape memory alloy material technology for innovative rover tires that could support the ...

Shape memory alloys (SMA) remember their original shape and return to it after being heated. Similar to how a liquid transforms into a gas when boiled, SMAs undergo a phase transformation when heated ...

A study led by Tohoku University, Iwate University, The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), National Astronomical Observation of Japan, Tokyo City University, and Kyoto University developed a ...

General Motors has been awarded $2.7 million by the Department of Energy to create a working prototype engine using Shape Memory Alloys (SMA). The idea is for the prototype to use SMA tech to capture ...

The agency just performed a test that uses shape memory alloy to fold a drone's wings in flight. GM’s Working on Humanoid Robots and Shape-Memory Alloy Generators And you thought the Detroit giant ...

Automated weaving of shape-memory alloy fabric muscles enables scalable, lightweight wearable robots that assist multiple ...

South Korean researchers develop fabric muscles for lightweight wearable robots that move naturally with the human body.