Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a manufacturing method, process, machine, and/or system for continuously consolidating granular materials, creating new alloys and/or composites, and/or modifying and/or refining material microstructure, by using plastic deformation of feedstock(s) provided in various structural forms. Materials produced during this process can be fabricated directly and/or in forms such as, e.g., wires, rods, tubes, sheets, plate and/or channels, etc.

A process for forming extruded products using a device having a scroll face configured to apply a rotational shearing force and an axial extrusion force to the same preselected location on material wherein a combination of the rotational shearing force and the axial extrusion force upon the same location cause a portion of the material to plasticize, flow and recombine in desired configurations. This process provides for a significant number of advantages and industrial applications, including but not limited to extruding tubes used for vehicle components with 50 to 100 percent greater ductility and energy absorption over conventional extrusion technologies, while dramatically reducing manufacturing costs.

There is provided an extruded and brazed product with improved corrosion resistance by having low coarse recrystallized grain formation as well as a method for making same. The extruded and brazed product comprises an aluminum alloy comprising in weight percent Mn 0.6-0.75; Fe 0.11-0.16; Si 0.10-0.19; Cu<0.01; Zn<0.05; Ti<0.05; optionally a grain refiner; optionally Ni<0.01; and the balance being aluminum and inevitable impurities.

A conductor material includes a metal matrix, and a first carbon allotrope distributed within the metal matrix, the first carbon allotrope being aligned with a direction of electric current flow through a length of the metal matrix. The metal matrix and the first carbon allotrope have an electrical interfacial coherency.

The invention concerns an aluminum extruded product as feedstock for forging comprising in weight percent Si: 0.6% to 1.4%, Fe: 0.01% to 0.15%, Cu: 0.05% to 0.60%, Mn: 0.4% to 1%, Mg: 0.4% to 1.2%, Cr: 0.05% to 0.25%, Zn≤0.2%, Ti≤0.1%, Zr≤0.05%, the rest being aluminium and unavoidable impurities having a content of less than 0.05% each, total being less than 0.15%, wherein the number density of Mn containing dispersed particles is at least equal to 2.5 particles per μm.sup.2, preferably 3.0 particles per μm. The invention also concerns the process to obtain the aluminum extruded product as feedstock for forging.

A shear assisted extrusion process for producing cladded materials wherein a cladding material and a material to be cladded are placed in sequence with the cladded material positioned to contact a rotating scroll face first and the material to be cladded second. The two materials are fed through a shear assisted extrusion device at a preselected feed rate and impacted by a rotating scroll face to generate a cladded extrusion product. This process allows for increased through wall strength and decreases the brittleness in formed structures as compared to the prior art.

Shear-assisted extrusion processes for forming extrusions of a desired composition from a feedstock material are provided. The processes can include applying a rotational shearing force and an axial extrusion to the same location on the feedstock material. Devices for this can include a die tool defined by a die face extending from a rim of the die face inwardly at an angle greater than zero in relation to a sidewall of the die tool in at least one cross section; and/or a die tool defining an opening configured to receive feedstock material for extrusion and further defining a die face defining a recess within the die face and contiguous with the opening. Shear-assisted extrusion processes are also provided that can mix different portions of the feedstock material within a recess about the opening prior to feedstock material entering the opening; and extruding the mixed portions.

A method for producing an aluminum alloy extrusion includes: conducting extrusion processing using a casted billet of an aluminum alloy containing 6.0 to 7.0% by mass of Zn, 1.5 to 2.0% by mass of Mg, 0.20 to 1.50% by mass of Cu, 0.10 to 0.25% by mass of Zr, 0.005 to 0.05% by mass of Ti, 0.15 to 0.35% by mass of Mn, 0.25% by mass or less of Sr, content of Mn and Zr and Sr being 0.10 to 0.50% by mass, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities to obtain an aluminum alloy extrusion; cooling the extrusion to 100° C. or less at a cooling rate of 50 to 750° C./min immediately after the extrusion processing; and then conducting an aging treatment which is performed in one-stage or two-stage and a heat treatment which is performed at higher temperature for a shorter time than the aging treatment.

An extrusion apparatus and a method for manufacturing an aluminum capillary tube using the same are provided. The extrusion apparatus includes a container, a housing mold provided on one side of the container and including a plurality of dies formed with a plurality of holes, and a ram pressing an aluminum billet accommodated in the container in a direction from another side to the one side of the container so that the aluminum billet accommodated in the container is extruded into a plurality of aluminum capillary tubes having cross-sectional shapes corresponding to the plurality of holes, and the number of the plurality of holes is determined based on an inner diameter of the container and a diameter of each of the plurality of holes.

The present disclosure provides methods for preparing an extruded product from a solid billet. The methods can include providing an as-cast billet for extrusion; applying a simultaneous rotational shear and axial extrusion force to the as-cast billet to plasticize the as-cast billet; and extruding the plasticized as-cast billet with an extrusion die to form an extruded product. Methods for preparing extruded products from billets can also include: providing a billet for extrusion; while maintaining a majority of the billet below 100° C., applying a simultaneous rotational shear and axial extrusion force to one end of the billet to plasticize the one end of the billet; and extruding the plasticized one end of the billet with an extrusion die to form an extruded product. Methods for preparing an extruded product from a billet can also include providing a billet for extrusion; applying a simultaneous rotational shear and axial extrusion force to the billet to plasticize the billet; extruding the plasticized billet with an extrusion die to form an extruded product; and artificially aging the extruded product for less than the ASTM recommended amount of time.