The constitutive equations describing the elastoplastic deformation of an isotropic material and taking into account the stress mode are validated against available experimental data. We propose a method for the approximate determination of the base functions appearing in the constitutive equations and relating the first and second invariants of the stress tensors and the linear components of finite strains. The strain components obtained by this method are compared to experimental data Keywords: isotropic material, elastoplastic deformation, constitutive equations Introduction. In formulating constitutive equations for isotropic materials [1, 2, 6, 12, 16, etc.], the conventional theories of plasticity [4, 5, 9-11, etc.] assume, as a rule, that the relationships between the invariants of stress and strain tensors are independent of the stress mode. This assumption agrees with experimental data at small strains (to 6-10%) [7] and is invalid if strains are large [3,8]. The papers [13,14] propose constitutive equations that describe the elastoplastic deformation of isotropic materials along small-curvature paths and take into account the stress mode. These equations relate the components of the stress tensor and the linear components of the strain tensor in Euler's coordinate system, can be used at both small and large strains, and are based on the assumption that the directional deviators of stresses and plastic strain differentials coincide and the mean plastic strain is nonzero. The equations include two functions, one relating the mean stress and strain and the stress mode angle and the other relating the intensities of tangential stresses and shear strains and the stress mode angle. These functions should be determined from tests on tubular specimens proportionally (at different constant stress mode angles) loaded by tension and internal pressure. If the functions are assumed independent of the stress mode angle and determined in tension tests, the equations transform into the equations of deformation along small-curvature paths [6].To validate the above assumptions, test data for tubular specimens subject to tension and internal pressure were used in [13][14][15]. The specimens were made of Kh18N10T steel and preliminarily annealed. It was established that the relations between the intensities of tangential stresses and shear strains obtained at the same stress mode angle and different ratios of principal stresses agree to within the scatter of experimental data. These base functions were calculated in [15] for the following stress mode angles: w p p s = 0 6 3 , / , / . The radial strain needed to calculate the functions and not measured in these tests was determined approximately. In [13][14][15], however, the strains were not determined based on the proposed constitutive equations and these functions and were not compared with experimental data.In contrast to [13][14][15], the present paper proposes a different approximate approach to determine the radial strain and finds new values of base functions. We u...