Ultrafine-grained aluminium alloys: Processes, structural features and properties

Fundamentals of Aluminium Metallurgy: Production, Processing and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 468-503

  Estrin, Y ^a,b   Murashkin, M ^c   Valiev, R ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Science and Education Center of Bashkir People History Ufa University of Science and Technology   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Age hardenable Al alloys; Ductility; Equal channel angular pressing (ECAP); Fatigue; Grain refinement; High pressure torsion (HPT); Microstructure; Non age hardenable Al alloys; Severe plastic deformation (SPD); Strength; Ultrafine grained (UFG) Al alloy

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; DUCTILITY; EQUAL CHANNEL ANGULAR PRESSING; GRAIN REFINEMENT; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HIGH STRENGTH ALLOYS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PRESSING (FORMING); TORSIONAL STRESS;

AGE HARDENABLE AL ALLOY; AL-ALLOY; HIGH PRESSURE TORSIONS; SEVERE PLASTIC DEFORMATIONS; STRENGTH;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 84902604511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857090256.2.468     Document Type: Chapter

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