Abstract:The damage and cold work hardening of 4043 and 2024 T4 aluminum alloy were introduced by tensile test under the applied stress between the yield strength and ultimate tensile strength. Fatigue damage of 2024 T4 aluminum alloy was introduced by cycling to half of fatigue life (85 000 cycles) at 225 MPa. Then the damaged specimens were healed by D. C. electropulsing. The electric resistances of as-received, damaged and healed specimens were measured by electric bridge, respectively. The results show that the elongation increases, and yield strength and ultimate strength decrease with the increase of healing time for the 4043 aluminum alloy tensile damaged specimen. The mechanical properties of the 4043 aluminum alloy damaged specimens treated by a 0.5 s electropulsing are close to the values of undamaged specimens. Fatigue life is considerably prolonged by a 0.8 s electropulsing treatment for the fatigue damaged specimen of 2024 T4 aluminum alloy. The electric resistance of aluminum alloys increases obviously after fatigue or tension damage, and decreases after electropulsing treatment, but it is still larger than that of the as-received specimen. The treatment time has little influence on the final resistances, but the mechanical properties are quite different for the samples treated by various electropulsing time. Although the resistance can describe the damage of aluminum alloys, it is not very sensitive to the mechanical properties, so it can not be considered as a good criterion for healing evaluation. The observation of microstructure reveals that the damages can be partly healed after D. C. electropulsing, and recrystallizaton phenomenon appears.