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Twenty-five years of ultrafine-grained materials: achieving exceptional properties through grain refinement
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In this article, an overview of the more recent developments in this field, with special emphasis on the opportunities for achieving homogeneity in the as-processed materials and on the general characteristics of the mechanical properties achieved after SPD processing.About:Ā
This article is published in Acta Materialia.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 614 citations till now.read more
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Heterogeneous lamella structure unites ultrafine-grain strength with coarse-grain ductility.
TL;DR: A heterogeneous lamella structure in Ti produced by asymmetric rolling and partial recrystallization that can produce an unprecedented property combination: as strong as ultrafine-grained metal and at the same time as ductile as conventional coarse- grained metal.
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Review on superior strength and enhanced ductility of metallic nanomaterials
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of experimental data and theoretical concepts addressing the unique combination of superior strength and enhanced ductility of metallic nanomaterials, and consider the basic approaches and methods for simultaneously optimizing their strength and ductility, employing principal deformation mechanisms, crystallographic texture, chemical composition as well as second-phase nano-precipitates, carbon nanotubes and graphene.
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A review on high-pressure torsion (HPT) from 1935 to 1988
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the findings of Bridgman and his successors from 1935 to 1988 using the HPT method and summarized their historical importance in recent advancement of materials, properties, phase transformations and HPT machine designs.
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Producing Bulk Ultrafine-Grained Materials by Severe Plastic Deformation: Ten Years Later
Ruslan Z. Valiev,Ruslan Z. Valiev,Yuri Estrin,Yuri Estrin,Zenji Horita,Terence G. Langdon,Terence G. Langdon,Michael J. Zehetbauer,Yuntian Zhu,Yuntian Zhu +9 more
TL;DR: The use of severe plastic deformation (SPD) has been extensively studied in the last decade as discussed by the authors, leading to the introduction of a range of nanostructural features, including nonequilibrium grain boundaries, deformation twins, dislocation substructures, vacancy agglomerates, and solute segregation and clustering.
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Fundamentals of superior properties in bulk NanoSPD materials
Ruslan Z. Valiev,Yuri Estrin,Zenji Horita,Terence G. Langdon,Terence G. Langdon,Michael J. Zehetbauer,Yuntian Zhu,Yuntian Zhu +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a critical overview of the properties of bulk nanoSPD materials, with a focus on the fundamentals for the observed extraordinary properties, including the unique nanostructures that lead to the superior properties, the underlying deformation mechanisms, critical issues that remain to be investigated, future research directions, and the application potential of such materials.
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Correlation of plastic deformation and dynamic recrystallization in magnesium alloy ZK60
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A first report on deformation-mechanism maps
TL;DR: Deformations-mechanism maps as discussed by the authors display the fields of stress and temperature in which a particular mechanism of plastic flow is dominant, i.e., dislocation glide, diffusional flow and dislocation creep.
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Structure and properties of ultrafine-grained materials produced by severe plastic deformation
TL;DR: In this article, the formation of a special grain boundary phase, i.e., a thin near-boundary layer with high dynamic activity of atoms, has been found, leading to the manifestation of promising new elastic, strength, superplastic, damping and magnetic properties of UFG materials.
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The shearing characteristics associated with equal-channel angular pressing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the shearing characteristics associated with ECA pressing for six different processing routes and reached conclusions concerning the optimum processing procedure and the development of texture in equal channel angular (ECA) pressing.
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Plastic deformation of alloys with submicron-grained structure
TL;DR: In this article, the peculiarities of a submicron-grained structure formation in a series of aluminium and magnesium-based alloys by means of a special strain-heat treatment are examined.