a Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Khalturina 39, Ufa 450001, Russia
b Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
Abstract:
It is shown that a high strength 7055 aluminum alloy with partially recrystallized initial structure exhibits superplastic behavior in the temperature interval 400–490 °C within a wide strain rate range from 8.3×10?5 to 3.3×10?2 s?1. Maximum total elongation of about 960% and strain rate sensitivity coefficient, m, of 0.6 were obtained at a temperature of 450 °C and a strain rate of 3.3×10?4 s?1.