Review Article

Biomedical Applications of Shape Memory Alloys

Table 1

Selected physical and mechanical properties typical of annealed tubing materials for vascular stent application. UTS = ultimate tensile stress; UTE = ultimate tensile strain. For the meaning of and , see Figure 1.

AlloysSpecific mass (g/cm3)Elastic modulus (GPa)Yield stress (MPa)Yield strain (%)UTS (MPa)UTE (%)

316 L7.951933400.1767048
ELGILOY8.302214500.2095045
NiTi6.45 ā€‰ā€‰ 135514.3