Constitutive Modeling of Flow Stress of MAB Alloy
In this work, plastic flow behavior of an as-cast manganese aluminum bronze was investigated under various compressive deformation conditions. The forming temperatures of 1023, 1073, 1123 and 1173 K and strain rates of 0.01, 0.1, 1.0 and 10 s-1 were considered. It was found that all obtained stress-strain responses of manganese aluminum bronze showed a single peak stress that afterwards approached a steady flow stress. Additionally, constitutive equations based on the Arrhenius model were applied for describing the determined flow stresses, in which Zener-Hollomon parameter in a hyperbolic-sine function was taken into account. By the flow stress modeling, the activation energy of about 194 kJ/mol was calculated for the examined manganese aluminum bronze.