The resistance to deformation of commercial pure aluminum and aluminum alloys has been investigated experimentally by using a cam plastometer. Materials tested in this peper are A1070, A1050, A1100, A3003, A5052, Al-1.2%Cu (KD) alloy. The deformation resistance-strain curves of those materials have been determined over a temparature range 300500°Ç, strain rate 1.012.0 sec
<-1>. The deformation resistance K
f was related to the true strain ε and the strain rate ε through a power law, i. e., K
f = K
nε
n and K
f = K
mε
m. The relation between the deformation resistance K
f, temperature T, strain ε, strain rate ε can be expressed not by the usual form; K
f = K
0ε
nε
me
<A/T> but by the form; K
f = (a+b/T+c/T
2)ε
nε
m, where a, b, c, n, m are constants dependent only on the material.
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