Since tubes are widely used for different industrial applications, processing of tubes by the Severe Plastic Deformation (SPD) method has been the target of different attempts. Among these attempts, development of SPD processes for tubes based on Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) has been more successful. As an illustration, Tube Channel Pressing (TCP) has been presented as an attractive SP...

Zinc based alloys have recently attracted great attention as promising biodegradable metals. Zinc exhibits moderate degradation rates in biological fluid and the zinc releases during the degradation process is considered safe to human systems. However, these materials exhibit critical limitations in terms of mechanical properties for medical applications. Adding alloying elements as well as gra...

the effect of pre-existing nano sized precipitates on the mechanisms and rate of grain refinement has been investigated during the severe plastic deformation. a binary al–0.2sc alloy, containing coherent al3sc particles, of 3.62 nm in diameter has been deformed by accumulative roll bonding up to 10 cycles. the resulting deformed structures were quantitatively analyzed using electron backscatter...

It is generally known that severe plastic deformation processes with back pressure not only apply higher hydrostatic stress and more deformation compared to what a regular process can apply to a workpiece but also prevent surface defects in the workpiece during the process. Hydrostatic cyclic expansion extrusion (HCEE) was developed recently for processing long ultrafine-grained metals and allo...

expansion equal channel angular extrusion (exp-ecae) is a severe plastic deformation (spd) operation for processing bulk materials. in the current study, aa7075 al was spd-processed by expansion equal channel angular extrusion (ex-ecae) at various temperatures and ram velocities. then, using split hopkinson pressure bar (shpb), the severely deformed products were compressed at room temperature ...

equal channel angular rolling (ecar) process is one of the methods that have been used to makeultra-fine materials by imposing severe plastic deformation. after repeating the process severaltimes, a large effective strain is applied to the sample that can cause decreasing the grain size andimproving the mechanical and physical properties of the metal. in this study, thermal conductivityof the s...

the full annealing aa6061 aluminum alloy was subjected to severe plastic deformationvia the combination of equal channel angular pressing (ecap) and cold rolling (cr) in order torefine its microstructure and to improve its mechanical properties. according to the results of hotand cold tensile tests, the combination of ecap and cr significantly affected the final strengthand ductility of studied...

The effect of pre-existing nano sized precipitates on the mechanisms and rate of grain refinement has been investigated during the severe plastic deformation. A binary Al–0.2Sc alloy, containing coherent Al3Sc particles, of 3.62 nm in diameter has been deformed by accumulative roll bonding up to 10 cycles. The resulting deformed structures were quantitatively analyzed using electron backscatter...

The processing of bulk metals through the application of severe plastic deformation (SPD) provides an opportunity for achieving excellent grain refinement to the submicrometer or even the nanometer range. These SPD procedures produce materials exhibiting improved mechanical properties including very high strength. This report describes recent results demonstrating the strengthening of conventio...