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.0015a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/smr/volume-2013/749296/figures/749296.fig.0015a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Homogeneous mesoscale model</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="749296.fig.0015b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/smr/volume-2013/749296/figures/749296.fig.0015b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Heterogeneous mesoscale model</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Mesoscale models with homogeneous (a) and heterogeneous (b) mean PVF of 0.5.</table>

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Figure 15: Density Dependence of the Macroscale Superelastic Behavior of Porous Shape Memory Alloys: A Two-Dimensional Approach 