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Soft Nanoscience Letters, 2011, 1, 120-129 doi:10.4236/snl.2011.14019 Published Online September 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/snl) Development of Nano-Structured AA1050 by ECAE and Thermal Treatments * Carmelo J. Luis , Javier León, Rodrigo Luri, Ignacio Puertas, Ivan Pérez, Daniel Salcedo Departament of Mechanical, Energetics and Materials Engineering, Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain. * Email: cluis.perez@unavarra.es Received July 22nd, 2011; revised September 12th, 2011; accepted September 22nd, 2011. ABSTRACT In this present work , a study regarding the change in the mechanical properties and in the microstructure of the alu- minium alloy AA 1050 is made after being processed by severe plastic deformation (SPD) with Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE). Optical and scanning electron microscopy techniques will be employed in order to determine the evolution of the microstructure after different thermal treatments, subsequent to the severe plastic deformation process. This present work involves a profound study on the change in the mechanical properties for an alloy which has a very low value of strain hardening at room temperature. With this, it is demonstrated that it is possible to improve its me- chanical properties significantly with an adequate combination of ECAE processing and thermal treatments. Keywords : ECAE, SPD, Aluminium, UFG 1. Introduction and it allows the material to be deformed up to much higher values than those which are possible to achieve In these days, there is a great deal of interest in the with conventional thermo-mechanical processes. manufacturing of ultrafine grained (UFG) materials ei