Study of the cyclic behavior and the fatigue damage of an anisotropic 2017A aluminium alloy

The present work is devoted to study the anisotropic behavior of an extruded aluminum alloy under cyclic loading in axial and shear directions. In the first part, we have studied its elastoplastic behavior through the evolution of stress–strain loops, isotropic and kinematic hardening and we have associated this behavior with the evolution of its elastic adaptation (shakedown). We have studied the behavior of the material in fatigue damage using the evolution of stiffness. Microstructural investigations were performed on fractured surfaces using scanning electron microscope (SEM) in orderto understand the evolution of fatigue damage during cyclic loading. In the second part, we have simulated all the tests performed in the experimental part using the new version of multimechanisms model. The obtained results show that this version is able to take into account the anisotropic behavior of the materials under stress controlled tests.