The authors previously used the accumulative high-pressure torsion (ACC HPT) method for the first time on steel 316, β-Ti alloy, and bulk metallic glass vit105. On low-alloyed alloys, in particular, the zirconium alloy Zr-1%Nb, the new method was not...
High-pressure torsion (HPT) is widely used not only as a severe plastic deformation (SPD) method to produce ultrafine-grained metals but also as a mechanical alloying technique to synthesize different alloys. In recent years, there have been several...
Ti15Mo metastable beta Ti alloy was solution treated and subsequently deformed by high-pressure torsion (HPT). HPT-deformed and benchmark non-deformed solution-treated materials were annealed at 400 °C and 500 °C in order to investigate the e...
Excessive CO2 emission from fossil fuel usage has resulted in global warming and environmental crises. To solve this problem, the photocatalytic conversion of CO2 to CO or useful components is a new strategy that has received significant attention. T...
This study explores the impact of short-term annealing on the thermal stability and mechanical properties of oxygen-free copper subjected to high-pressure torsion (HPT). Copper samples were deformed through HPT with varying numbers of turns at room t...
Aluminium-tin-based alloys with different compositions were synthesized by a high-pressure torsion (HPT) method. The effect of different alloying elements and processing routes on the hydrogen generation performance of the alloys was investigated. Th...
A study of the effect of high-pressure torsion (HPT) on the structure, phase composition, corrosion resistance, mechanical properties and bioactivity in vitro of Zn-1%Mg-0.1%Ca alloy was performed. It was shown that HPT leads to refinement of the all...
Al-Al2O3 and SiC metal matrix composites (MMCs) samples with different volume fractions up to 20% were produced by high-pressure torsion (HPT) using 10 GPa for 30 revolutions of Al-Al2O3, and SiC and powder metallurgy (PM). The effect of the processi...
White structure flaking (WSF) has been found to be one of the failure modes in bearing steels under rolling contacts through the formation of cracks associated with a microstructural change called white etching area (WEA). In the present research, th...
The effect of high-pressure torsion (HPT) on the microstructure, phase composition, mechanical characteristics, degradation rate, and bioactive properties of the Zn–1%Mg alloy is studied. An ultrafine-grained (UFG) structure with an average gra...
In this study, a crystal plasticity finite element method (CPFEM) model has been developed to investigate the anisotropic plastic behavior of (001) aluminum single crystal during high-pressure torsion (HPT). The distributions of equivalent plastic st...
A Mg-based composite material has been produced by the consolidation at room temperature of a Mg-5wt.% Ni-2wt.% Nb2O5 powder mixture subjected to high-pressure torsion (HPT), one of the processing methods to induce severe plastic deformations. The mi...
In this study, two biodegradable Mg-Zn-Ca alloys with alloy content of less than 1 wt % were strengthened via high pressure torsion (HPT). A subsequent heat treatment at temperatures of around 0.45 Tm led to an additional, sometimes even larger incre...
The influence of the nanocrystalline structure produced by severe plastic deformation (SPD) on the corrosion behavior of CoCrFeMnNi alloys with Cr contents ranging from 0 to 20 at.% was investigated in aqueous 0.5 M H2SO4 and 3.5% NaCl solutions. The...
Superfunctional materials are defined as materials with specific properties being superior to the functions of engineering materials. Numerous studies introduced severe plastic deformation (SPD) as an effective process to improve the functional and m...
Strengthening by grain refinement via the Hall–Petch mechanism and softening by nanograin formation via the inverse Hall–Petch mechanism have been the subject of argument for decades, particularly for ultrafine-grained materials. In this...
A mandatory prerequisite for a good hydrogen storage material is long-term stability in hydriding/dehydriding reactions, in a suitable temperature interval (250–350 °C for magnesium intermetallics). A 50-cycle hydriding/dehydriding stabilit...
The importance of lightweight materials such as titanium and magnesium in various technical applications, for example aerospace, medical implants and lightweight construction is well appreciated. The present study is an attempt to combine and improve...
The motivation for the current study was to improve the wear and frictional properties of Al, Al–Al2O3, and SiC MMCs through HPT processing. The wear test using a tungsten carbide (WC) ball was carried out for different PM and HPT-processed Al...
Using the methods of electron microscopy and X-ray analysis in combination with measurements of the electrical resistance and magnetic susceptibility, the authors have obtained data on the peculiar features of pre-martensitic states and martensitic t...
An overview of modern material science problems is presented for ultralightweight high-modulus commercial Al-Li-based alloys in historical retrospect. Numerous particular examples of the Soviet and Russian aviation whose various designs were made of...
High-pressure torsion (HPT) is a severe plastic deformation technique where a sample is subjected to torsional shear straining under a high hydrostatic pressure. The HPT method is usually employed to create ultrafine-grained nano-structures, making i...
This overview examines the results of a study of the effect of slippage in high-pressure torsion (HPT). A number of papers in this area and the works of the authors of this overview are considered. The authors used the method of the “joint HPT...
A356 aluminium alloy is subjected to heat treatment and high-pressure torsion (HPT) processing to investigate the impact of the combined treatments on the alloy’s microstructure refinement, corrosion resistance and hardness. The high-pressure t...
Severe plastic deformation (SPD) can lead to various phase transformations. High-pressure torsion (HPT) is one of the most important variants of SPD. In principle, HPT can continue almost indefinitely long, as long as the plungers are not destroyed....
This paper reports the effect of high-pressure torsion (HPT) on the first hydrogenation of LaNi5. We found that, for loose powder, reduction of particle size has an effect of increasing the incubation time and decreasing the hydrogen capacity. A high...
The pressure influence on the α → ω transformation in Ti–Co alloys has been studied during high pressure torsion (HPT). The α → ω allotropic transformation takes place at high pressures in titanium, zirconium and hafnium as well as in their alloys. T...
Cu–14 wt% Sn alloy was annealed at temperatures of 320 and 500 °C. The concentration of tin cinit in the copper-based matrix increased with annealing temperature. The annealed samples were subjected to high-pressure torsion (HPT) at 6 GPa, 5 turns, 1...
High-pressure torsion (HPT) was applied to the Ni50.6Ti49.4 (at. %) alloy ingot up to 1/4, 2, 16, 32 and 48 turns under a pressure of 6.0 GPa. The samples were examined by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and microhardn...
Grade 91 (9Cr-1Mo) steel was subjected to various heat treatments and then to high-pressure torsion (HPT) at different temperatures. Its microstructure was studied using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Effects of t...
High-purity Ni was processed by high-pressure torsion (HPT) at room temperature under an imposed pressure of 6.0 GPa and a rotation rate of 1 rpm through 1/4 to 10 turns, and samples were then examined using Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction (EBSD)...
In this study, a composite with alternate layers of 5056 and 1580 alloys was manufactured with wire arc additive manufacturing technology. It is shown that increased strength characteristics of composite material can be obtained with deformation trea...
The study focused on a 21.99 at.%Ti–22.49 at.%Zr–20.35 at.%Hf–17.45 at.%Mo–17.73 at.%Cr). Analytical techniques such as X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy as well as X-ray absorption spectroscopy were employed to...
High-pressure torsion (HPT) was applied for the Ni49.6Ti35.4Hf15 (at.%) alloy up to 1/4, 2 and 16 turns under a pressure of 4.0 GPa. The samples were examined using X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and microhardness mea...
High-pressure torsion (HPT) is applied to a face-centered cubic CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy at 293 and 77 K. Processing by HPT at 293 K produced a nanostructure consisted of (sub)grains of ~50 nm after a rotation for 180°. The microstructure evolut...
A multi-metal composite was consolidated from the Ti50Ni25Cu25 and Fe50Ni33B17 alloys by room-temperature high-pressure torsion (HPT). The structural research methods used in this study were X-ray diffractometry, high-resolution transmission electron...
This study examines the impact of high-pressure torsion (HPT) processing at various temperatures on the precipitation behavior of Cu-Cr alloys. The introduction of defects through HPT is observed to promote the precipitation of Cr atoms. Unlike the t...
High-pressure torsion (HPT) is a high efficiency processing method for fabricating bulk ultrafine-grained metallic materials. This work investigates microstructures and evaluates the corresponding strengthening components in the center of HPT disks,...
This paper presents a study of microstructure formation in bioresorbable Fe-Mn-Si alloys for temporary implants under high-pressure torsion (HPT) at room temperature and at 300 °C. The effect of silicon on the mechanism of microstructure formatio...
This paper summarizes recent efforts to evaluate the potential for the formation of a metal matrix nanocomposite (MMNC) by processing two commercial bulk metals of aluminum and magnesium alloy through high-pressure torsion (HPT) at room temperature....
In this study, high-pressure torsion (HPT) was used to process austenitic 316LVM stainless steel at 20 °C and 400 °C. The effects of HPT on the microstructure, mechanical, and functional properties of the steel were investigated. By applying...
In this study, high-pressure torsion (HPT) processing is applied to the as-cast Al0.5CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy (HEA) for 1, 3, and 5 turns. Microstructural observations reveal a significant refinement of the second phase after HPT processing. This...
The potential medical Zn-1.7%Mg and Zn-1.7%Mg-0.2%Zr alloys strengthened using high-pressure torsion (HPT) were investigated in this work. HPT led to a significant refinement of the microstructure of both alloys with the formation of an ultrafine-gra...
In this work, the formation and thermal stability of the ω-Ti(Fe) phase that were produced by the high-pressure torsion (HPT) were studied in two-phase α-Ti + TiFe alloys containing 2 wt.%, 4 wt.% and 10 wt.% iron. The two-phase microstru...
The paper presents the evaluation of the mechanical and fatigue properties of an ultrafine-grained (UFG) Al 6061 alloy processed by high-pressure torsion (HPT) at room temperature (RT). A comparison is made between the UFG state and the coarse-graine...
Hydroxyapatite and bioactive glass particles were added to pure magnesium and an AZ91 magnesium alloy and then consolidated into disc-shaped samples at room temperature using high-pressure torsion (HPT). The bioactive particles appeared well-disperse...
A comparative analysis of the effect of high-pressure torsion (HPT) on the microstructure and tensile properties of the Al–10% La, Al–9% Ce, and Al–7% Ni model binary eutectic aluminum alloys is carried out. An HPT of 20-mm diameter specimens in as-c...
High-pressure torsion (HPT) is known as an effective severe plastic deformation (SPD) technique to produce bulk ultrafine-grained (UFG) metals and alloys by the application of combined compressive force and torsional shear strains on thin disk sample...
The research on structural features, microhardness distribution, and deformation features of Vit105 bulk metallic glass (BMG) before and after high-pressure torsion (HPT), as well as after relaxing annealing, has been carried out. HPT n = 1 leads to...
The duplex stainless steel 2205, designated DSS2205 and having a duplex structure comprising ferrite and austenite phases, was processed by high-pressure torsion (HPT) and the microstructural and hardness evolutions were investigated after various HP...
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