Friction stir welding and processing enabled the creation of stronger joints, novel ultrafine-
grained metals, new metal matrix composites, and multifunctional surfaces at user-defined …

In contrast with the conventional remelting recycling of aluminum and its alloy chips, the
solid state recycling techniques, which can convert the chips directly into dense bulk …

Additive manufacturing (AM) has the potential to transform manufacturing by enabling
previously unthinkable products, digital inventory and delivery, and distributed …

Abstract Solid Stir Extrusion (SSE) is an innovative friction-stir technology based process
developed to obtain an extrudate of the preferred shape. As a solid-state manufacturing …

Copper-carbon composites are a group of materials with excellent mechanical, electrical,
thermal, and tribological properties. However, bulk size copper-carbon composites made by …

Driven by the highly enhanced demand for metallic materials with excellent strength-ductility
synergy, fine-grained alloy fabricated by severe plastic deformation (SPD) is a long-lasting …

Friction stir extrusion (FSE) is a novel solid-phase processing technique that consolidates
and extrudes metal powders, flakes, chips, or billets into high-performance parts by plastic …

ZK60 Magnesium tubing has been friction extruded from as-cast billets and T5 conditioned
bars using Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion (ShAPE). Tubes having an outer …

Meters-long oxide dispersion strengthened copper rods were manufactured directly from
powder by a single-step process, called friction extrusion. The average grain size was 880 …

This study aims to understand the microstructure evolution and texture development during
friction extrusion of aluminum alloys, focusing on AA7075 as exemplary alloy system …