Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 2000, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (2): 481-485.

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THE INFLUENCE OF CAVITY DAMAGE ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUPERPLASTICALLY-DEFORMED MATERIALS AND ITS PREDICTION

M. B. Liu, Z. C. Zhao,H. Gao,M. Q. Li and S. C. Wu College of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China   

  • Received:2000-04-25 Revised:2000-04-25 Online:2000-04-25 Published:2009-10-10

Abstract: Aluminium alloy LY12CZ sheet without any pre-treatment has been used to study the influence of cavity damage on the mechanical properties of the superplastically-deformed materials room temper- ature. The experimental results show that: (1) the lower the rate of cavitation as the superplastic strain increases, the higher the superplasticity is; (2) the mechanical properties of superplastically- deformed materials at room temperature decrease as the superplastically-deformed strain increases, especially, a noteworthy decrease in elasticity modulus, yield strenth and ultimate strength at room temperature begins to appear as the level of cavitation by area comes up to about 4%, while at the same level the reduction in area drops down a very large quantity. Then, a three-layer back- propagation neural network has been developed to predict the machanichl properties of the superplasti- cally-deformed material.The results acquired from the neural network are very inspiring

Key words: superplasticity, cavity, mechanical property, artificial neural network