Material processing techniques that employ severe plastic deformation have evolved over the past decade, producing metals, alloys and composites having extraordinary properties. Variants of SPD methods are now capable of creating monolithic materials with submicron and nanocrystalline grain sizes. The resulting novel properties of these materials has led to a growing scientific and commercial interest in them. They offer the promise of bulk nanocrystalline materials for structural; applications, including nanocomposites of lightweight alloys with unprecedented strength. These materials may also enable the use of alternative metal shaping processes, such as high strain rate superplastic forming. Prospective applications for medical, automotive, aerospace and other industries are already under development.

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Preface. Introduction. I: Innovations in Severe Plastic Deformation Processing and Process Modeling. Severe Plastic Deformation of Materials by Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE); R.E. Goforth, et al. Severe Plastic Deformation of Steels: Structure, Properties and Techniques; S.V. Dobatkin. Application of ECAP - Technology for Producing Nano- and Microcrystalline Materials; V.I. Kopylov. Severe Deformation Based Process for Grain Subdivision and Resulting Microstructures; A.K. Ghosh, W. Huang. Modeling of Continual Flows in Angular Domains; B.V. Koutcheryaev. Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Tial Based Alloys; O.N. Senkov, F.H. Froes. Formation of Submicrocrystalline Structure in TiAl and Ti3Al Intermetallics via Hot Working; G. Salishchev, et al. Severe Plastic Deformation Processes; Modeling and Workability; S.L. Semiatin, et al. The Effect of Strain Path on the Rate of Formation of High Angle Grain Boundaries During ECAE; P.B. Prangnell, et al. Thermomechanical Conditions for Submicrocrystalline Structure Formation by Severe Plastic Deformation; F.Z. Utyashev, et al. II: Microstructural Characterization and Modeling of Severe Plastic Deformation Materials. Strengthening Processes of Metals by Severe Plastic Deformation. Analyses with Electron and Synchrotron Radiation; M.J. Zehetbauer. Size Distribution of Grains or Subgrains, Dislocation Density and Dislocation Character by Using the Dislocation Model of Strain Anisotropy in X-Ray Line Profile Analysis; T. Ungár. X Ray-Studies and Computer Simulation of Nanostructured SPD Metals; I.V. Alexandrov. An Analysis of Heterophase Structures of Ti3Al, TiAl, Ni3Al Intermetallics Synthesized by the Method of the SphericalShock Wave Action; B.A. Greenberg, et al. Structural Changes Induced by Severe Plastic Deformation of Fe- and Co-Based Amorphous Alloys; N. Noskova, et al. Structure of Grains and Internal Stress Fields in Ultrafine Grained NI Produced by Severe Plastic Deformation; N.A. Koneva, et al. Crystal Lattice Distorsions in Ultrafine-Grained Metals Produced by Severe Plastic Deformation; A.N. Tyumentsev, et al. Grain and Subgrain Size-Distribution and Dislocation Densities in Severely Deformed Copper Determined by a New Procedure of X-Ray Line Profile Analysis; T. Ungár, et al. Calculation of Energy Intensity and Temperature of Mechanoactivation Process in Planetary Ball Mill by Computer Simulation; E.V. Shelekhov, et al. III: Microstructure Evolution During Severe Plastic Deformation Processing. Microstructural Evolution During Processing by Severe Plastic Deformation; T.G. Langdon, et al. Characterization of Ultrafine-Grained Structures Produced by Severe Plastic Deformation; Z. Horita, et al. Fragmentation in Large Strain Cold Rolled Aluminium as Observed by Synchrotron X-Ray Bragg Peak Profile Analysis (SXPA), Electron Back Scatter Patterning (EBSP) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM); E. Schafler, et al. Influence of Thermal Treatment and Cyclic Plastic Deformation on the Defect Structure in Ultrafine-Grained Nickel; E. Thiele, et al. Nanostructure State as Nonequilibrium Transition in Grain Boundary Defects in SPD Condition; O.B. Naimark. Texture, Structural Evolution and Mechanical Properties in AA5083 Processed by ECAE; L. Dupuy, et al. A TEM-Based Disclination Model for the Substructure Evolution under Severe Plastic Deformation; M. Seefeldt, et al. Physical Mesomechanics of Ultrafine-Grained Metals; V.E. Panin. Microstructure Evo