Can the strain hardening exponent be above one for a composite or a foam metal using a compression test. What is the best equation that can be applied for such results
I remember getting n - values greater than one as well during my final year research. The material used was Aluminum Alloy AA6082 - O sheet, and the obtained n - values were greater than 1.4. At first I could not understand it as well, until I found a document with n - values way much greater than mine, in a range of 2. An n - value greater than 1 could be due to the threshold stress intensity, which is an important characteristic of the cyclic fracture toughness of the material, affected by the heat treatment methods the tested material has gone through.
Thank you for your answer, however, even this is hardly yielded a result for n larger than one. Does your new model bring a new way for finding n (the strain hardening exponent)?