“…In recent studies on the plastic deformation of steel (Ranta-Eskola, 1980;Laukonis, 1981;Wagoner and Laukonis, 1983;Schmitt et al, 1985;Raphanel et al, 1986;Doucet and Wagoner, 1989) aluminium (Lloyd and Sang, 1979;Juul Jensen and Hansen, 1990;Wilson et al, 1990) and copper sheets (Vieira et aL, 1990;Schmitt et al, 1991;Fernandes et al, 1993;Vieira and Fernandes, 1995), the mechanical response in reloading has been exhaustively analysed. For strain path changes other than inversion of the loading conditions, these metals display a behaviour of the second type.…”