Density Dependence of the Macroscale Superelastic Behavior of Porous Shape Memory Alloys: A Two-Dimensional Approach

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="749296.fig.004a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/smr/volume-2013/749296/figures/749296.fig.004a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Pore volume fraction of 0.3</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="749296.fig.004b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/smr/volume-2013/749296/figures/749296.fig.004b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Pore volume fraction of 0.7</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Typical pore pattern in a 500 × 500 hexagonal element lattice for PVF = 0.3 (a) and PVF = 0.7 (b).</table>

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Figure 4: Density Dependence of the Macroscale Superelastic Behavior of Porous Shape Memory Alloys: A Two-Dimensional Approach 