AA5086 tensile tests with Portevin-Le Chatelier (PLC) effect, complete raw dataset: DIC images, raw output and elements of post-processing

This dataset is associated with a paper published in Materials Science and Engineering: A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2019.01.009

Hardening and 2D digital image correlation data obtained on AA5086 sheets with Portevin-Le Chatelier (PLC) effect and Piobert-Lüder (PL) bands.

rolled sheets

28 tensile tests in rolling direction, room temperature

constant imposed velocity with nominal strain rate from 1E-4 to 1E-1 Hz

2 geometries:

(mac) large, Lw=60mm

(mic or mes) small, Lw=4.2mm

File contents

summary of experiments

libreoffice database format: experiments-summary.ods

specifications, details, measurements and post treated quantities of each test

specimens blueprints (.pdf)

video record of a test (.mp4)

raw DIC images archives

format: .zip

from 300 to 2300 images per test

time series

archived in timeSeries.zip

format: _timeSeries.dat

tabulation separated values, one line per picture (previous item)

index, force, cross-head displacement, Stress, axial strain

bands kinetics post-treated quantities

archived in bandKinetics.zip, 2 TSV data files (one per geometry)

stress at nucleation, strain magnitude jump and instantaneous working area relative elongation rate.