The effects of the change in specimen dimension on the elongation percentage were investigated for various aluminum alloy sheets, of which the specimens had various widths and a constant length of the reduced section.
As the results of tests, it was found to be desirable that the length of the reduced specimens would be determined by the following equation, independent of the kind of aluminum alloys:
Lc ≥
L0+0.8W
Lc: length of reduced section
L
0: gauge length
W: width of reduced section
On the other hand, it has already been found that when the ratio of gauge length to the square root of cross-section area (
L0/√
A) is kept constant, the percentage elongation is reasonably constant, independent of the change in shape of the cross-section. Therefore, it was desirable that the test specimens having constant values of
L0/√
A would be used for the tension tests. However, sheet-type test pieces should be usually used in full plate thickness and the size of specimens for the above tension tests was difficult to be selected.
Then, a percentage elongation (δ) was obtained from a specimen having an arbitrary value of
L0/√
A, and the value corresponding to
L0/√
A=10 could be converted from the above value measured by Oliver's Equation.
The "converted elongation percentage (δ
0)" can be used as a ductility index of material itself for discussing elongation percentages of different sheet metals and the same metal under different conditions. The conversion from δ into δ
0 can be determined very simply by using the alignment chart.
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