Abstract: An experimental investigation was cawted out of the cyclic saturated kinematic hardening of the solution treatment stainless steel 316L subjected to cyclic loading for seveml strain paths, such as uniaxial cycling, cireulan elliPtic, diamond, rectangular shapes. The evoluting tndectories of back stresses in deviatoric stress space were obtained, and the evolution of back stress mtes during cyclic saturuted loading was analyzed under the assumption that the yield sudece rudius at cyclic saturation is constant and the direction of plastic stmin rute coincides with the one of the out normal vector Of the yield sudece. Some significant results were obtained.

Key words: stainless steel 316L, nonproportional cyclic plasticity, kinematic hardening