Determination of flow stress: Part 1 constitutive equation for aluminium alloys at elevated temperatures

Abstract

An alternative form of the hyperbolic sine relationship is developed for use as a constitutive equation at elevated temperatures. It is shown how an optimization technique may be applied to results from torsion tests to determine the constants in this equation and that this method must be more accurate than those presented previously. Experimental results for two aluminium alloys indicate that the activation energy during hot torsion testing is the same as the activation energy for bulk self-diffusion. It is shown that thermal changes occurring during testing affect results significantly.