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The rheological behaviour of a model SnPb alloy in the semi-solid state is investigated. The tensorial constitutive equation that was proposed in Part I for viscoplastic porous metallic materials saturated with liquid is used. In particular, the three characteristic functions appearing in the viscoplastic potential that describes the porous solid phase rheology are experimentally identified. Three stress states are exploited to identify the functions: undrained triaxial compression, drained hydrostatic densification and shear deformation in a Couette rheometer. Undrained tests for which the interstitial liquid pressure is measured show that a viscoplastic potential with a densification/dilatation boundary situated on the J1 = 0 axis (firstin variant) is not valid. Finally, triaxial drained compression is used to partially validate the coupling, introduced in the viscoplastic potential formulation, between hydrostatic and deviatoric properties. |