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Tensile deformation of aluminum as a function of temperature, strain rate, and grain size

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True stress, true strain data are presented for two lots of high-purity aluminum annealed to produce several different grain sizes from each lot. The testing temperature range 20° to 873°K (0.021 to 0.94 T/T m ) was explored and the effect of strain rate was measured at 77° and 300°K.

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TP 4129E. Manuscript, June 15, 1955. New York Meeting, February 1956.

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Carreker, R.P., Hibbard, W.R. Tensile deformation of aluminum as a function of temperature, strain rate, and grain size. JOM 9, 1157–1163 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03398279

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