The plastic deformation of seven 5083 commercial aluminum materials, produced from five different alloy heats, are evaluated under conditions of interest for superplastic and quick-plastic forming. Two mechanisms are shown to govern plastic deformation in AA5083 over the strain rates, strains, and temperatures of interest for these forming technologies: grain-boundary-sliding (GBS) creep and solutedrag (SD) creep. Quantitative analysis of stress transients following rate changes clearly differentiates between GBS and SD creep and offers conclusive proof that SD creep dominates deformation at fast strain rates and low temperature. Furthermore, stress transients following strain-rate changes under SD creep are observed to decay exponentially with strain. A new graphical construction is proposed for the analysis and prediction of creep transients. This construction predicts the relative size of creep transients under SD creep from the relative size of changes in an applied strain rate or stress. This construction reveals the relative size of creep transients under SD creep to be independent of temperature; temperature dependence resides in the "steady-state" creep behavior to which transients are related.

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Superplastic tensile ductility has been attained when specially-processed AA5083 materials are strained in tension at relatively high strain rates, in the range of the transition from grainboundary sliding (GBS) to solute drag creep (SDC) control of deformation. Quick plastic forming (QPF) technology involves deformation at such strain rates, and the relative contributions of GBS and SDC to the strain during deformation in this strain rate regime have been examined in this investigation. The additive, independent contributions of GBS and SDC to the elevated temperature deformation of fine-grained materials are reviewed. The transition from GBS to SDC in grain-refined AA5083 materials was evaluated by several methods, including the assessment of initial transients during straining and of transients during strain-rate change tests; the strain-rate dependence of the flow stress; the dependence of ductility on strain rate; flow localization behavior and fracture mode; cavitation growth; the evolution of microstructure and microtexture during deformation; and comparison with phenomenological models for the GBS-to-SDC transition.