3-D rolling car driven by shape memory alloy

• Main Author: Ong, Wei Ming.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51084
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) is a material that remembers its original shape and will return to its initial shape 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 among all ind...