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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2021
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX (US);
Darel Hodgson, Houston, TX (US);
Mohammad Salehi Najafabadi, Houston, TX (US);
Reginald Desroches, Houston, TX (US);
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A damping device includes a superelastic element made of an austenitic shape memory alloy and an energy-absorbing element adjacent to the superelastic element, wherein the energy-absorbing element is made of a material selected from a shape memory alloy, a malleable metal or alloy, and a viscoelastic polymer, and wherein deformation of the energy-absorbing element is restrained by the superelastic element.
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