The Ramaswamy-Stouffer—Laflen constitutive model (1) has recently been extended (2) to account for the inelastic response of 7050—T7451 aluminium alloy. This paper presents the results of a combined analytical and experimental investigation into the ability of this model to predict the inelastic response to complex load spectra.
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