Analytical and Numerical Investigation of Knee Brace Equipped with a Shape Memory Alloy Damper

Table 3

Properties of the studied numerical models.

	Knee section dimension (mm)			Number of SMA wires	Length of SMA wire (mm)
	Width	Height	Thickness
KBF	60	60	4.5	—	—
KBF-10-1	55	55	4	2 × 20 D1.8 mm	100
KBF-10-2	55	55	3.5	2 × 26 D1.8 mm	100
KBF-10-3	50	50	3	2 × 40 D1.8 mm	100
KBF-10-4	50	50	2.5	2 × 44 D1.8 mm	100
KBF-15-1	55	55	4	2 × 30 D1.8 mm	150
KBF-15-2	55	55	3.5	2 × 40 D1.8 mm	150
KBF-15-3	50	50	3	2 × 60 D1.8 mm	150
KBF-15-4	50	50	2.5	2 × 66 D1.8 mm	150
KBF-20-1	55	55	4	2 × 39 D1.8 mm	200
KBF-20-2	55	55	3.5	2 × 52 D1.8 mm	200
KBF-20-3	50	50	3	2 × 78 D1.8 mm	200
KBF-20-4	50	50	2.5	2 × 86 D1.8 mm	200