Plastic Anisotropy of A2024BE-T6 and O Aluminum Alloys

Abstract

Multiaxial stress tests were carried out on thin-walled cylindrical specimens of the A2024BE-T6 alloy aged at 120°C for 1 hr and the A2024BE-O alloy fully annealed at 495°C for 1hr. The shear strength of these alloys is much lower than the tensile one, and the equi-strain surfaces in the tension-torsion stress field lie within Tresca's criterion. Planar anisotropy was determined from two types of multiaxial stress tests by means of the combined loading of axial load, internal pressure and torsion, referred to as “off-axis tension test” and “off-axis torsion test”. The degree of anisotropy is expressed by using two different measures : one is the proof stress and the other is the angle deviation between the directions of the principal stress (or principal shear stress) and principal strain increment (or principal shear strain increment). The A2024BE-T6 alloy exhibits more severe anisotropy than the A2024BE-O alloy and both alloys reveal more severe anisotropy in off-axis tension test than in off-axis torsion test. The plastic deformation behavior can be analyzed precisely by the constitutive equation derived from the anisotropic yield function, hardening law and associated flow rule.