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Mechanical Equation of State in an Al-Li Alloy

Existence of plastic equation of state has been investigated by performing a series of load relaxation tests at various temperatures using an Al-Li alloy. A plastic equation of state is first developed from a simple kinetics consideration for a mechanical activation process of a leading dislocation piled up against grain boundaries. A series of load relaxation test has been conducted at tempera...

Yielding Phenomenon of an Al-3% Li Alloy

where the specimens are recovered but not recrystallized. This second type of yielding is characterized by a sharp yield drop and long yield elongation. A mechanism of the second type of yielding has not been investigated, but it is clear that the yielding phenomenon is not due to a simple effect of strain aging, because the specimens has recovered so that dislocation arrangements should have c...

CORROSION BEHAVIOUR OF Al-Li-Cu-Mg ALLOY 8090-T651

The Establishment of Surface Roughness as Failure Criterion of Al–Li Alloy Stretch-Forming Process

Taking Al–Li–S4–T8 Al–Li alloy as the study object, based on the stretching and deforming characteristics of sheet metals, this paper proposes a new approach of critical orange peel state characterizations on the basis of the precise measurement of stretch-forming surface roughness and establishes the critical criterion for the occurrence of orange peel surface defects in the stretch-forming pr...

Determination of a set of constitutive equations for an Al-Li alloy at SPF conditions

Uniaxial tensile tests of aluminium-lithium alloy AA1420 were conducted at superplastic forming conditions. The mechanical properties of this Al-Li alloy were then modelled by a set of physicallybased constitutive equations. The constitutive equations describe the isotropic work hardening, recovery and damage by dislocation density changes and grain size evolution. Based on a recent upgraded op...