Table 3.

Room-temperature tensile properties and mechanical anisotropy parameters of AZ31 and AZ31-0.5Ca alloys. Strain hardening exponents presented in Table 3 were calculated by using true stress-true strain curves of the alloys (not shown here).

Alloy	Tensile Direction	YS (MPa)	UTS (MPa)	UE (%)	TE (%)	n	r	ravg	Δr
AZ31	RD	176	275	24	32	0.2	2.34	2.3	0.72
	45°	161	272	22	29	0.17	2.7
	TD	171	283	23	27	0.21	1.62
AZ31-0.5Ca	RD	147	248	31	38	0.28	0.71	0.6	0.16
	45°	125	237	30	35	0.27	0.52
	TD	139	251	30	32	0.26	0.69