《ULTRA-FINE GRAINED BULK ALUMINUM PRODUCED BY》.pdf

Scripta Materialia, Vol. 39, No. 9, pp. 1221-1227, 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd Pergamon Copyright © 1998 Acta Metallurgica Inc. Printed in the USA. All rights reserved. 1359-6462/98 $19.00 .00 PII S1359-6462(98)00302-9 ULTRA-FINE GRAINED BULK ALUMINUM PRODUCED BY ACCUMULATIVE ROLL-BONDING (ARB) PROCESS Y. Saito, N. Tsuji*, H. Utsunomiya, T. Sakai and R.G. Hong** Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan (Received March 26, 1998) (Accepted in revised form July 13, 1998) Introduction It has been clarified recently that ultra-fine grains less than 1 m in diameter can be obtained by intense plastic straining. Several intense straining processes such as torsion straining [1–6], equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) [4–8], and mechanical milling of powder metals [9,10] have been proposed for grain refinement. However, the previously proposed processes are not appropriate for practical application to produce large bulk materials. We have, on the other hand, developed a novel intense straining process for bulk materials using rolling deformation, named accumulative roll-bonding (ARB), very recently [11,12]. Fig. 1 illustrates