Increasing demand of lightweight structures with exceptional properties elicits materials
processing and manufacturing technologies to tailor blanks in order to achieve or enhance …

Friction stir processing (FSP) has attracted much attention in the last decade and contributed
significantly to the creation of functionally graded materials with both gradient structure and …

To develop ultrafine grains (UFG) in 6.35 mm thick magnesium alloy, stationary shoulder
friction stir processing (SSFSP) with steel and copper backing plates was conducted. Steel …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and or micron-sized silicon carbide (SiC) particles were
reinforced with Al5083 matrix to develop mono and hybrid composites via friction stir …

This work reviews friction stir processing (FSP), which is a prominent severe plastic
deformation technique used to improve materials behaviors through grain refinement …

Equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with and without nitrogen alloying were
produced by vacuum induction melting and then subjected to friction stir processing. The …

Cutting force and surface finish are two critical characteristic parameters for diamond turned
polycrystalline copper components. In this work, polycrystalline copper with different grain …

The present research work investigates the microstructure and mechanical properties of
friction stir processed aluminium alloy 5086 based surface composite at micro-level …

Background The severe plastic deformation approach and its well-known cyclic extrusion
compression (CEC) method have been established as a powerful tool for fabricating bulk …

Abstract A bulk Cu-0.55 Cr-0.2 Zr alloy with structure of ultra-fined grains (UFGs),
nanograins (NGs) and nano precipitates in grain boundaries (GBs) was fabricated by …