Hydro Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) - the way to industrial processing

澳大利亚有丰富的铝、钛和镁资源。从金属出口国向技术和高端制成品输出国转变，对澳大利亚具有国家战略意义。为了在全球市场上竞争，澳大利亚需要在汽车、航空航天、电子和生物医学应用的轻合金部件生产方面处于领先地位。建立工业上可行的Hydro-ECAP技术，用于生产具有优异机械性能的大块超细晶轻合金，将导致此类材料使用的重大突破，并将有助于澳大利亚金属成型公司向面向未来的制造业转型。

Australia has rich resources in aluminium, titanium and magnesium. It is of strategic national importance to Australia to change from being an exporter of metals to becoming a purveyor of technology and high-end manufactured products. To compete in the global market, Australia needs to be in a leading position in production of light alloy components for automotive, aerospace, electronic, and bio-medical applications. The establishment of industrially viable Hydro-ECAP technology for production of bulk ultrafine grained light alloys with superior mechanical properties will lead to a major breakthrough in the use of such materials and will help transforming Australia's metal forming companies to future-oriented manufacturing industries.