2-D Micro rolling car activated by shape memory alloy

• Main Author: Cheah, Wei Shin.
• Other Authors: Huang Weimin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Motor vehicles
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45092
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) is a material that remembers its 'original' shape and return to it when the alloy is heated above certain transition temperature. It was first discovered by Arne Olande in 1938. Despite of the long discovery of SMA since 1930s, its application...