A Constitutive Model for Superelastic Shape Memory Alloys Considering the Influence of Strain Rate

Table 1

Comparisons of model predictions and experimental data for varying peak strains: constant strain rate.

Peak strain (m/m)	Energy dissipation per cycle (MJ/m^3/cycle)			Tensile stress at peak strain (GPa)			Equivalent viscous damping (%)
	Experimental data	Numerical results	Difference	Experimental data	Numerical results	Difference	Experimental data	Numerical results	Difference
2.0%	2.20	2.25	2.13%	354.21	352.69	−0.43%	4.95	5.08	2.57%
4.0%	5.84	5.95	1.89%	351.20	357.82	1.88%	6.62	6.63	0.45%
5.85%	8.91	9.17	2.91%	359.32	362.57	0.91%	6.75	6.88	1.98%