Equal channel angular pressing (ECAP), expansion equal (Exp.-ECAP), and hybrid (HECAP) or (Hybrid ECAP) processes were applied to pure copper specimens within this study. After the application of ECAP, die used in Exp.-ECAP process was optimized considering strain inhomogeneity specimen maximum load that occurred during process. Finite element method (FEM), artificial neural network (ANN), gene...

During experimental studies of the equal-channel angular pressing-drawing effect on microstructure evolution and mechanical properties change, principal possibility effectiveness using proposed continuous method for forming an ultrafine-grained structure increasing strength steel-aluminum wire was proved. The deformation carried out at ambient temperature in three passes. It is shown that both ...

A new die design has been proposed for processing of materials using Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE). The proposed design is an improvement over the existing ones and has an additional attribute to process materials at high temperatures (up to 500 oC). The design has been tested for different materials at different temperatures and it has shown the benefit of reducing the load requiremen...