TY - JOUR TI -  Method of programming the nitinol springs in the space of the kiln chamber AU - Wieczorek, Bartosz AU - Kukla, Mateusz AU - Wojtkowiak, Dominik AU - Okoniewicz, Piotr AU - Ostrowska, Karolina TI -  Method of programming the nitinol springs in the space of the kiln chamber AB - This paper shows a method of programming the NiTinol springs by heating them up in the furnace chamber filled with technical nitrogen. A fully specified methodology, which consists of preparing the spring forms, the numerical analysis of the heating time and the description of the heating process are presented in this article. The effectiveness of the following method is confirmed using research of shape retention after a series of duty cycles performed by an activated NiTinol spring. VL - 2017 IS - Volume 11 Year 2017 (114) PY - 2017 SN - 0011-4561 C1 - 2353-737X SP - 221 EP - 232 DO - 10.4467/2353737XCT.17.201.7432 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/czasopismo-techniczne/article/method-of-programming-the-nitinol-springs-in-the-space-of-the-kiln-chamber KW - NiTinol KW - Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) KW - NiTinol programming KW - helical springs