Improving Earthquake Resistance with a Single Crystal (VIDEO)

Tohoku University

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This bending test of a copper-aluminium-manganese single-crystal bar (68 cm in length and 16 mm in diameter) produced by cyclic heat treatment shows a super-elastic response with almost no residual strain.

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Toshihiro Omori (via Nature Communications)

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