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Aluminium Design and Construction John Dwight

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undercarriages of aircraft. They are specialist products on which it is<br />

essential to confer with the supplier.<br />

Forgings are available in many of the usual wrought alloys. Nonheat-treatable<br />

ones are supplied in the ‘as-manufactured’ F condition in<br />

materials such as 5083, 5454 <strong>and</strong> 5251. The typical strength of these,<br />

which will vary across the component, tends to be higher than the O<br />

condition values for plate or extruded material. Heat-treated forgings<br />

can be obtained in alloys such as 6082 <strong>and</strong> 2014, with properties in the<br />

T4 <strong>and</strong> T6 conditions comparable to those for other wrought products<br />

in those alloys.<br />

4.4 STRESS-STRAIN CURVES<br />

4.4.1 Empirical stress-strain relation<br />

The shape of the stress-strain (�, e) curve is not mentioned in material<br />

specifications, nor does it directly figure in design. But it is useful for<br />

a designer to have a feel for it. Sometimes specialist computer programs<br />

are employed, either for structural analysis or in research studies. Such<br />

programs require the use of a suitable mathematical expression to relate<br />

stress <strong>and</strong> strain, a convenient empirical relation being the well known<br />

Ramberg-Osgood equation:<br />

where E=modulus of elasticity, <strong>and</strong> � o =actual 0.2% proof stress.<br />

Figure 4.9 Ramberg-Osgood stress-strain equation (4.3), effect of n.<br />

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