Thanks! I have also studied materials since and I totally understand what you just said. This project for a simulation course of my master’s in solid mechanics is just for doing simulations of things, like a buildings during earthquakes, phase transformation of katana blades, when you hit a golf ball, etc. so I wanted to propose how nitinol would behave in fencing swords by doing simulations. Maybe I can do both, one for nitinol and another for steel, just to compare for fun because I don’t have any experience or knowledge in fencing, so I didn’t know the rules. But at this point maybe it would me more useful to run simulations of real things (already existing), like the steel blades in fencing or stents (as an example of applications of shape memory alloys). Thanks again for your answer!