Glossary

A

  • AISI American Iron and Steel Institute
  • ARB Accumulative Roll Bonding
  • ASM American Society for Metals
  • ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

B

  • BSE Backscattered Electrons

D

  • DP Steel Dual Phase Steel

E

  • EBSD Electron Backscattered Diffraction
  • ECAE Equal Channel Angular Extrusion
  • ECAP Equal Channel Angular Pressing
  • ED Extrusion Direction
  • EDS Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy

F

  • FESEM Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • FSP Friction Stir Processing

H

  • HPT High-Pressure Torsion
  • HSLA Steel High-Strength Low-Alloy Steel

J

  • JUFGNSM Journal of Ultrafine Grained and Nanostructured Materials

M

  • MA Mechanical Alloying

N

  • ND Normal Direction

O

  • OM Optical Microscopy

R

  • RD Rolling Direction

S

  • SAE Society of Automobile Engineers
  • SE Secondary Electrons
  • SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • SPD Severe Plastic Deformation

T

  • TD Transverse Direction
  • TEM Transmission Electron Microscopy
  • TRIP Transformation-Induced Plasticity
  • TWIP Twinning-Induced Plasticity

U

  • UFG Ultrafine Grained
  • UTS Ultimate Tensile Strength

X

  • XRD X-ray Diffraction

Y

  • YS Yield Stress