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/Petch relationship in friction stir welds of equal channel angular-pressed aluminium alloys Yutaka S. Sato *, Mitsunori Urata, Hiroyuki Kokawa, Keisuke Ikeda Department of Materials Processing, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama 02, Sendai 980-8579, Japan Received 30 September 2002; received in revised form 3 December 2002 Abstract The effect of grain size on hardness in the stir zones of friction stir (FS) welds of equal channel angular (ECA)-pressed Al alloys 1050 and 5083 was examined. The hardness was found to be essentially related to grain size through the