Wear and fatigue of a 55 - nitinol alloy (TM-MF-046)

55-Nitinol is the generic name for a series of nickel-titanium alloys based on the intermetallic compound NiTi (1) whose stoichiometric composition is 55 wt% nickel and 45 wt% titanium. The materials were first produced in 1962, in the United States, at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and the name is an...