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Corrigendum to “Effect of thermal cycling on the shape memory transformation behavior of NiTi alloy: Powder X-ray diffraction study” [Mater. Sci. Eng. A. 448 (2007) 33–38]
Materials Science and Engineering A 505 (2009) 191
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Corrigendum to “Effect of thermal cycling on the shape memory transformation behavior of NiTi alloy: Powder X-ray diffraction study” [Mater. Sci. Eng. A. 448 (2007) 33–38] Manjunatha Pattabi a,∗ , K. Ramakrishna a , K.K. Mahesh b a b
Department of Materials Science, Mangalore University, Mangalagangotri 574199, India CENIMAT/Departamento Ciência dos Materiais, Campus da FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
The authors regret an error made in this article about the specification of the material used. Please find below the authors comments. “We had purchased the shape memory alloy (SMA) from M/s Shape Memory Applications, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA. The composition indicated in the “Certificate of Conformance” given by the suppliers shows that the SMA is Ni-rich NiTi. We had just believed the supplier’s certificate, as the company is one among the reputed firms in the field of supplying SMAs. Later on when we were working on the same material it was realized that a Ni-rich (50.8 Ni–49.2 Ti) alloy is not expected to exhibit transformation temperatures in the range from +40 to +140 ◦ C, even after heat treatment. This range of transformation temperatures is typical of a Ti-rich alloy, instead of a Ni-rich alloy. Once we had this realization, we had carried out EDAX analysis of our samples and it was found that our sample is indeed Ti-rich NiTi. [Manjunatha Pattabi, K. Ramakrishna, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 486 (2008) 14]. Therefore, at all places in the article under reference Ni-rich NiTi should be read as Ti-rich NiTi. This will not alter any of the results or discussions or conclusions.” The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused to the readers of the journal.
DOI of original article:10.1016/j.msea.2006.09.052. ∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: +91 824 228 7249; fax: +91 824 2287367. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Pattabi). 0921-5093/$ – see front matter © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.msea.2009.01.001
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Corrigendum
Corrigendum to “Effect of thermal cycling on the shape memory transformation behavior of NiTi alloy: Powder X-ray diffraction study” [Mater. Sci. Eng. A. 448 (2007) 33–38] Manjunatha Pattabi a,∗ , K. Ramakrishna a , K.K. Mahesh b a b
Department of Materials Science, Mangalore University, Mangalagangotri 574199, India CENIMAT/Departamento Ciência dos Materiais, Campus da FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
The authors regret an error made in this article about the specification of the material used. Please find below the authors comments. “We had purchased the shape memory alloy (SMA) from M/s Shape Memory Applications, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA. The composition indicated in the “Certificate of Conformance” given by the suppliers shows that the SMA is Ni-rich NiTi. We had just believed the supplier’s certificate, as the company is one among the reputed firms in the field of supplying SMAs. Later on when we were working on the same material it was realized that a Ni-rich (50.8 Ni–49.2 Ti) alloy is not expected to exhibit transformation temperatures in the range from +40 to +140 ◦ C, even after heat treatment. This range of transformation temperatures is typical of a Ti-rich alloy, instead of a Ni-rich alloy. Once we had this realization, we had carried out EDAX analysis of our samples and it was found that our sample is indeed Ti-rich NiTi. [Manjunatha Pattabi, K. Ramakrishna, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 486 (2008) 14]. Therefore, at all places in the article under reference Ni-rich NiTi should be read as Ti-rich NiTi. This will not alter any of the results or discussions or conclusions.” The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused to the readers of the journal.
DOI of original article:10.1016/j.msea.2006.09.052. ∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: +91 824 228 7249; fax: +91 824 2287367. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Pattabi). 0921-5093/$ – see front matter © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.msea.2009.01.001