Heat treatment has been widely applied for manipulating the microstructure and properties
of metals with thermal energy. The thermal energy triggers the atomic diffusion accompanied …

A review of the experimental and theoretical research on electroplastic deformation of
metals is presented herein. We focus on the fundamental physics of electro-mechanical …

The direct application of electric current as well as heat treatment can be used to
recrystallize metallic materials. Electric current enhances the recrystallization kinetics …

Electroplastic phenomenon has been demonstrated by that the elongation increases
remarkably during deformation under electric current without a significant elevation of …

We demonstrate that grain boundaries (GBs) behave as Brownian ratchets, exhibiting
direction-dependent mobilities and unidirectional motion under oscillatory driving forces or …

A set of IF steel specimens, at several stages of recrystallization, were subjected to EBSD
analysis to provide data for a study of primary recrystallization. First, a criterion was defined …

Electrically assisted deformation (EAD) was adopted in this work to overcome the
shortcomings such as poor formability and easy cracking in the processing of dual-phase …

In this paper, electropulsing (EP) technique was employed to enhance the capability of
ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM) of metals. The microstructure and mechanical …

In this work, a newly-developed L1 2-type precipitation-strengthened Al 0.3 FeCuCrNi 2 high-
entropy alloy (HEA) was subjected to friction stir processing (FSP), and the microstructural …

Creep mechanism was well-known to be mainly dominated by the dislocation sliding and
climbing during creep deformation. Here we study the creep deformation of an Al-Cu-Li alloy …