“…As for other hcp alloys, the flow stress is strongly dependent on both temperature and strain rate (Khan et al, 2004(Khan et al, , 2007Lee and Lin, 1998;Majorell et al, 2002;Peirs et al, 2010;Tuninetti et al, 2012b;Tuninetti and Habraken, 2014;Porntadawit et al, 2014). In addition, TA6V exhibits a strength asymmetry between tension and compression also called strength differential (SD) effect (Gilles et al, 2011;Hammami et al, 2011;Odenberger et al, 2012;Tuninetti et al, 2012b). Gilles et al (2011) and Nixon et al (2010) explain that this effect is the result of the combination of a sharp initial basal texture and of the polarity of the deformation twinning mechanism, even for monotonic loadings.…”