The development of hardness homogeneity in pure aluminum and aluminum alloy disks processed by high-pressure torsion

M Kawasaki, SN Alhajeri, C Xu, TG Langdon - Materials Science and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Processing by high-pressure torsion was conducted on four different materials: high-purity
(99.99%) aluminum, commercial purity (99.5%) aluminum, an Al-1% Mg solid solution alloy …

High-pressure torsion of hafnium

K Edalati, Z Horita, Y Mine - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2010 - Elsevier
Pure Hf (99.99%) is processed by high-pressure torsion (HPT) under pressures of 4 and
30GPa to form an ultrafine-grained structure with a gain size of∼ 180nm. X-ray diffraction …

FEM simulation of large deformation of copper in the quasi-constrain high-pressure-torsion setup

M Kamrani, VI Levitas, B Feng - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2017 - Elsevier
High pressure-torsion (HPT) technique is widely used to introduce severe plastic
deformation in order to obtain ultrafine-grained materials with improved properties or to …

Microstructures and mechanical properties of HPT processed 6063 Al alloy

M Das, G Das, M Ghosh, M Wegner, V Rajnikant… - Materials Science and …, 2012 - Elsevier
6063 Al alloy is subjected to severe plastic deformation through high-pressure torsion (HPT)
using disk samples. The values of the Vickers microhardness and equivalent strain were …

Role of strain gradient on grain refinement by severe plastic deformation

Y Todaka, M Umemoto, J Yin, Z Liu… - Materials Science and …, 2007 - Elsevier
The role of strain gradient on strengthening and grain refinement into nanometer scale
during severe plastic deformation was studied in iron by using ball milling (BM) and high …

Significance of strain reversals in a two-phase alloy processed by high-pressure torsion

M Kawasaki, B Ahn, TG Langdon - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2010 - Elsevier
Disks of the Zn–22% Al eutectoid alloy were processed in conventional monotonic high-
pressure torsion (m-HPT) and under cyclic conditions where there are periodic reversals in …

The significance of slippage in processing by high-pressure torsion

K Edalati, Z Horita, TG Langdon - Scripta Materialia, 2009 - Elsevier
Experiments were conducted to measure the extent of slippage occurring when thin disks
are processed by high-pressure torsion. Separate tests were conducted on aluminum …

Significance of grain refinement on microstructure and mechanical properties of an Al-3% Mg alloy processed by high-pressure torsion

HJ Lee, JK Han, S Janakiraman, B Ahn… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Significant grain refinement is attractive for improving mechanical properties at both ambient
and elevated temperatures and improvements in the properties of light-weight metals has …

Structural impact on the Hall–Petch relationship in an Al–5Mg alloy processed by high-pressure torsion

P Bazarnik, Y Huang, M Lewandowska… - Materials Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The evolution of microstructure and microhardness was studied in a commercial 5483 Al–
5Mg alloy processed by high-pressure torsion (HPT) under a pressure of 6.0 GPa up to 10 …

High-pressure torsion of aluminum with ultrahigh purity (99.9999%) and occurrence of inverse Hall-Petch relationship

Y Ito, K Edalati, Z Horita - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2017 - Elsevier
Severe plastic deformation through the high-pressure torsion (HPT) method was applied to
pure aluminum with a wide range of purity levels such as 99%(A1100), 99.5%(A1050) …