Abstract. This paper focuses on the super-elastic characterization of Ni-based shape memory alloys for biomedical applications. Shape memory alloy (SMA) have presented excellent characterization in biomedical application fields, such as high corrosion resistance, bio-compatible, non-magnetic, and the unique physical properties with the capability to replicate those of human tissues and bones, and so on. In this study, a shape memory alloy (SMA) constitutive model is proposed that is capable of describing SMA super-elastic features and the plasticity effects. Finally, the analyzed results show good ability to predict y the experimental data.