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A Review on Grain Refinement of Aluminum Alloys: Progresses, Challenges and Prospects

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Aluminum becomes the most popular nonferrous metal and is widely used in many fields such as packaging, building transportation and electrical materials due to its rich resource, light weight, good mechanical properties, suitable corrosion resistance and excellent electrical conductivity. Grain refinement, which is obtained by changing the size of grain structure by different techniques, is a preferred method to improve simultaneously the strength and plasticity of metallic materials. Therefore, grain refining of aluminum is regarded as a key technique in aluminum processing industry. Up to now, there have been a number of techniques for aluminum grain refining. All the techniques can be classified as four categories as follows: grain refining by vibration and stirring during solidification, rapid solidification, the addition of grain refiner and severe plastic deformation. Each of them has its own merits and demerits as well as applicable conditions, and there are still some arguments in the understanding of the mechanisms of these techniques. In this article, the research progresses and challenges encountered in the present techniques and the future research issues and directions are summarized.

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The authors thank for the supports of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 51474063, 51674077 and 51504065 and appreciate the help of the literature surveys by Yang Zhang, Ning Su, Xiang Wang, Diwen Hou, Lianze Ji, Wei Wang and Wei Song.

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Guan, RG., Tie, D. A Review on Grain Refinement of Aluminum Alloys: Progresses, Challenges and Prospects. Acta Metall. Sin. (Engl. Lett.) 30, 409–432 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40195-017-0565-8

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