BILINEAR ISOTROPIC AND BILINEAR KINEMATIC HARDENING OF AZ31 MAGNESIUM ALLOY

The cyclic behaviour of the load on AZ31 alloy material is also described in brief. Mainly, the plastic behaviour of the material is explained with the fundamentals of the elasticity and plasticity of the material. Material simulations are carried out using ANSYS software to obtain results for the cyclic loading behaviour of the AZ31 material using Finite Element method. In this simulation has considered bilinear isotropic, bilinear kinematic hardening curves in material properties and linear, quadratic element type with mesh size as 0.4mm and 0.6mm. These simulations can help to understand how AZ31 acts when long displacements act on small size specimens, and immediate repetitive loads act on AZ31 specimen. These results can be used in automobile or aerospace industry to have more developments in future.