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Strain Hardening Characteristics of 99.9% Pure Silver at Large Strains

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Silver has wide-ranging applications, such as industrial equipment, semiconductors, musical instruments, and silverware. Despite its diversified applications, publications on its strain-hardening characteristics are rare. In this work, tensile and hardness tests were performed for cold-rolled specimens at different levels of thickness reduction after full annealing. Up to the true strain of 1.7, strain-hardening characteristics and variations in Rockwell hardness were obtained for 99.9% pure silver. The consistency between the true stress–strain curve and the hardness data was confirmed through finite-element modeling and analysis of the hardness test procedure. Strain-hardened pure silver was verified to have yield strength comparable to sterling silver. For applications where both of purity and deformation resistance are important, strain hardened pure silver could be a practical candidate.

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Abbreviations

σ :

True stress

ε :

True strain

\(\overline{\varepsilon }\) :

Equivalent strain

s :

Engineering stress

e :

Engineering strain

E :

Young’s modulus

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School, Korea University, 145, Anam-Ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea

    Doohyun Cho, Jung-Hoon Kim & Hyo Chan Kwon

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, 145, Anam-Ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea

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Cho, D., Kim, JH., Kwon, H.C. et al. Strain Hardening Characteristics of 99.9% Pure Silver at Large Strains. Int. J. Precis. Eng. Manuf. 22, 1061–1067 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12541-021-00502-4

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