
doi: 10.5772/21541
Light metals such as aluminum, magnesium, titanium and their alloys are useful for a wide range of applications such as in the automotive, railway, and aerospace industries. Engineering of fine-grained light metal materials is an indispensable technology that is expected to improve material properties such as tensile strength, elongation, corrosion resistance, fracture toughness, strain-rate plasticity, low-temperature plasticity, etc. The production of fine-grained light metals with excellent properties using severe plastic deformation methods, especially rolling and extrusion, has been intensively studied. With such processes, the size of the metal grain generally decreases because plastic deformation causes a decrease of grain size, by the principle shown schematically in Fig. 1.
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