Recoverable and plastic strains generated by forward and reverse martensitic transformations under external stress in NiTi SMA wires

P. Šittner, E. Iaparova, O. Molnárová +4

Superelastic NiTi 1 shape memory alloy (SMA) wire was subjected to thermomechanical loading tests in tension to evaluate stress and temperature conditions under which the wire defo…