A Novel Methodology to Estimate the Athermal Contribution During Electric-Assisted Deformation of AA 1050 Alloy
摘要
In this research, electroplastic test with and without stress relaxation is utilized to decouple the rate-dependent component of stress drop. The stress relaxation exhausts the effect of rate-dependent component by dislocation overcoming the short-range obstacle. The net contribution due to electric current after stress relaxation is rate-independent or athermal. No additional assumptions are included to derive the athermal component. The methodology is successfully demonstrated through electric-assisted deformation tests using AA1050 alloy samples.