7475 aluminum alloy sheet with a grain size of about 10 μm showed a large elongation of 780% when deformed at 516°C with the strain rate (ε) of 2×10
-4 sec
-1. The plastic deformation behavior was greatly affected by grain size (
d), deformation temperature and strain rate, and was represented by εα
d-n where
n=1.8-2.5 at 516°C. Moreover, an activation energy for the deformation was found to be 84 kJ/mol, which is about a half of that of creep deformation. The superplastic deformation can be explained by a diffusion accomodated grain boundary sliding model.
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