Compressive stress-strain test results for 2024-T3 aluminum-alloy sheet are presented for temperatures ranging from room temperature to 700℉ and for exposure times from 0.1 to 100 hours. All specimens were loaded parallel to the rolling direction of the sheet and tested at a nominal strain rate of 0.002 per minute. Stress-strain curves are presented for each temperature and exposure time investigated, and signif¬icant design data obtained from the curves (compressive yield stress, Young's modulus, secant and tangent moduli, and two stresses useful for determining the maximum compressive strength of plates) are presented in graphical and tabular form. A rate-process relationship is used to determine the exposure time that produces a maximum compressive yield stress for a given temperature and a time-temperature parameter derived from rate-process theory is used to present the compressive yield stresses as a single master curve.
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