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In industrial practice of rolling and hot forging, i.e. extrusion-type forging, abruptchanges in strain rate during the deformation of the material occur. For accurate numericalsimulation of a forging process, the experimental investigation of the effect of the transient changein strain rate on plastic flow behaviour is necessary. The present paper deals with the investigationof this effect on the flow stress of an AD-35 aluminium alloy during its deformation within thetemperature range of 350-450 °C. During continuous uniaxial compression loading of a cylindricalspecimen, the strain rate was either constant or abruptly increased or decreased from its initial valueat engineering strain of app. 26 %. The following strain-rate histories were applied: 1) constantstrain rate of 0.1, 1.0 and 10 s-1; 2) abrupt strain-rate increasing from 1.0 to 10.0 s-1; 3) abrupt strainratedecreasing from 10.0 to 1.0 s-1. The results of the experimental investigations corresponded tothe transient change in strain rate histories were used to verify the model of softening as well as themodel of hardening of the AD-35 alloy during the abrupt change of the strain rate. It allows todefine these models explicitly.

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This article describes a modeling procedure of material’s mechanical test during the abrupt change of the strain rate. Simulation results were compared with the data obtained experimentally. The numerical simulation was performed in the FE-program QFORM. The paper describes the selection of areas for further research related to the definition of mathematical models of deformation resistance, and it also contains the software requirements for the simulation of mechanical tests.