Effects of Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) Process with an Additional Expansion-Extrusion Stage on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Mg–9Al–1Zn

Subject Areas : Severe Plastic Defeormation

Mahnoush Rassa ¹ (Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Geonik Azadkoli ² (Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Mohammad Eftekhari ³ (Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Ali Fata ⁴ (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran)
Ghader Faraji ⁵ (Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2021-07-28 Accepted : 2021-09-05 Published : 2021-11-01

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