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Materials at High Temperatures (2006), 23(2)

 

Measurement of flow stress in hot axisymmetric

compression tests

B. Roebucka, J.D. Lorda, M. Brooksa, M.S. Lovedaya, C.M. Sellarsb and R.W. Evansc

aMaterials Centre, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, UK

bDepartment of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield, UK

cIRC for Computer Aided Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, UK

 

ABSTRACT

This paper describes good practice for the measurement of hot flow stress in metallic materials. It

is applicable to hot (isothermal) uniaxial axisymmetric compression tests at medium to high rates of

strain (10_4–102 s_1) at deformation temperatures below the solidus.

Guidance is provided on appropriate testpiece geometries and methods of verifying the temperature

distribution along the length of the testpiece. Flow diagrams are given showing all the steps that are

necessary, including the correction factors that need to be applied for deformational heating and for

the determination of true stress. Details are given of the calibration procedures that should be

followed to provide traceability to the National Measurement System.

Technical input to the document has been provided by a steering group containing academic

researchers and representatives of industrial users and producers of a wide range of engineering

materials. An experimental and modelling programme on an aluminium alloy, AA5052; on 316

stainless steel and a nickel alloy, Nimonic 901, over a range of temperatures and strain rates has been

conducted during the preparation of the document to underpin the procedures in the guide.

 

Keywords: flow stress, hot axisymmetric compression tests

 

Measurement of flow stress in hot plane strain

compression tests

M.S. Lovedaya, G.J. Mahonb, B. Roebucka, A.J. Laceyc, E.J. Palmierec, C.M. Sellarsc and

M.R. van der Windend

aMaterials Centre, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, UK

bInnoval (formerly at Alcan International Ltd), Banbury, UK

cDept of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield, UK

dCorus Group, Ijmuiden, The Netherlands

 

ABSTRACT

This Good Practice Guide is applicable to hot (isothermal) plane strain compression (PSC) tests at

medium to high rates of strain (10_3 to 102 s_1) at deformation temperatures below the solidus.

Guidance is provided on appropriate testpiece geometries and methods of verifying the temperature

distribution along the length of the testpiece. Flow diagrams are given showing all the steps that are

necessary, including the correction factors that need to be applied for breadth spreading of the

testpiece; machine origin and compliance, friction effects and deformational heating. Details are given

of the calibration procedures that should be followed to provide traceability to the National

Measurement System.

The development of the procedure has been supported through experimental tests on type 316

austenitic stainless steel at 1050 – 1150_C and an aluminium alloy, AA5052, at 300_C to 500_C at

strain rates ranging up to 100 s_1.

Technical input to the document has been provided by a steering group comprising academic

researchers, representatives of industrial users and producers of a wide range of engineering materials.

 

Keywords: flow stress, hot plane strain compression test

 

 

Measurement of flow stress at high temperature in

solid torsion tests

B. Roebucka, M.S. Lovedaya, Y. Chastelb, G. Fioruccib and T. Dal Negroc

aMaterials Centre, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK

bCEMEF, Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

cUniversity of Padua, Italy

 

ABSTRACT

This document outlines good measurement practice to be adopted for the determination of flow

stress at high temperature in torsion tests on solid metallic materials. The recommendations are

applicable to hot (isothermal) tests at medium to high rates of strain (10_3–102 s_1) at temperatures

relevant to metal working practice.

Guidance is provided on appropriate testpiece geometries and methods of verifying the temperature

distribution along the length of the testpiece. Flow diagrams are given showing all the steps that are

necessary, including the correction factors that need to be applied for deformational heating and for

the determination of true stress. Details are given of the calibration procedures that should be

followed to provide traceability to the National Measurement System.

Technical input to the document has been provided by the steering group of a European SMT

funded project on High Temperature Testing, TESTIFY, that contained representatives of industrial

users and producers of a wide range of engineering materials as well as academic modellers.

An experimental programme was conducted during the preparation of this document to underpin

the procedures in this guide.

 

Keywords: flow stress, high temperature, solid torsion tests