The uniaxial and biaxial,monotonic and cyclic plasticity behaviour of a lead alloy model material

Abstract

A chill-cast, antimony-arsenic-lead alloy model material has been used to investigate the monotonic and cyclic loading, uniaxial and biaxial plasticity behaviour of a metal at elevated temperature, i.e., T/T_m ≈ 0.5.

For the lead alloy used, a post-machining heat treatment of 96h at 100 C considerably reduced the scatter in the material behaviour. Uniaxial monotonic loading tests showed that the behaviour is relatively independent of temperature and strain-rate for strains less than about 1 per cent.

Under cyclic loading conditions, between fixed strain limits, a stable hysteresis loop is obtained after the first cycle for both uniaxial and biaxial stress systems. By taking into account the biaxiality ratio and the increase in yield-range caused by cyclic hardening, the uniaxial and biaxial, cyclic plasticity behaviour was reasonably accurately predicted from the uniaxial, monotonic loading behaviour.

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