Overview

Nitinol: The Book. A comprehensive and practical guide to development of medical components using nickel titanium. Authored by Tom Duerig and Alan Pelton, among others, we’re posting working drafts from each chapter here at NitinolUniversity.com, and welcome your feedback and comments!

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Table of Contents

This is a partial table of contents; we will add detail and links as they become available.

Part I: Fundamentals and Properties

  1. Introduction
    1. A Short Orientation
    2. A Historical Perspective
    3. Other Alloys Exhibiting Shape Memory Effects
    4. The Future
  2. The Thermal Transformation from Austenite to Martensite and the Origin of Shape Memory
    1. Phase Transformations in Metals
    2. Austenite
    3. Martensite
    4. And more…
  3. Thermoelasticity
  4. The R-Phase
  5. And more…

Part II: Processing and Manufacturing

Part III: Engineering

Part IV: Medical Device Case Studies