V.A. Andreyachshenko, Faculty of Nanotechnology and Metallurgy, Karaganda state technical University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan A.B. Naizabekov, Mining and Metallurgy Faculty, Rudny Industrial Institute, Rudny, Kazakhstan In the present research, equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) was conducted. The defectness degree of the alloy for one pass and maximum strain was determined. Ultra fine grained...

A spray-cast Al-7034 alloy was processed by equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) to a total of 8 passes at 473 K and the pressed samples were examined using transmission electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and electron back-scatter diffraction. It is shown that the grain size of the alloy is reduced to ~0.3 μm by ECAP and the high pressures associated with ECAP lead to a fra...

Locally produced Al–Zn–Mg alloy was subjected to severe plastic deformation through Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) technique at temperatures of 150 °C and 200 °C. Rectangular thick-walled medium carbon steel die (?c = 450Mpa, ?y 176Mpa) with an L-shaped channel uniform configuration provide the pressing chamber used. Four ECAP passes were imposed consecutively on set samples for temperat...

Recent developments in nanostructured products draw considerable attention to ultrafine grained materials. These materials are normally manufactured by different severe plastic deformation (SPD) methods. In the present study, analytical models and finite element method (FEM) are used to calculate strain imposed to a specimen that was deformed by equal channel angular pressing (ECAP). In additio...

Equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) is carried out using two different configurations for the exit channel of the ECAP die, i.e., relieved and choked, with angles of 0.2 °. It is found that using a die with relieved exit channel, the sample was extruded for 6 passes with no surface cracks and an average cell size of 727 nm and a fraction of high angle grain boundaries of 54 % were achieved. M...

Equal channel angular pressing (ECAP), expansion equal (Exp.-ECAP), and hybrid (HECAP) or (Hybrid ECAP) processes were applied to pure copper specimens within this study. After the application of ECAP, die used in Exp.-ECAP process was optimized considering strain inhomogeneity specimen maximum load that occurred during process. Finite element method (FEM), artificial neural network (ANN), gene...

Abstract The exact calculations of the stress and strain distributions based on controlling equations for a forming process with large deformation are often difficult. To circumvent such difficulties, some analytical methods upper-bound analysis slip-line field theory have been established by making number simplifying assumptions regarding material properties modes. In this work an model was su...

The microstructure of a Cu-0.1%Cr-0.1%Zr alloy after annealing or aging and equal channel angular pressing with conform (ECAP-C) process was investigated. ECAP-C led to formation strain induced low-angle boundaries (LAB) which transformed in high-angle (HAB) during deformation. Deformation microbands developed 1 pass, leading new ultrafine grain the upon further processing. Average size gradual...