Abstract
In this work, the high temperature tensile behavior of an aluminum-lithium (8090) alloy is studied at various strain rates and temperatures. In particular, special attention was paid to the oscillations observed in the true stress versus strain curves at high strain rate, 0.8 s{sup {minus}1}, and high temperatures in excess of 380 C (> 0.57 T{sub m}, where T{sub m} is the melting temperature). The changes in the microstructure were analyzed and correlated to the flow curves of the deformed samples.