| The current article presents our approach toward the area of generation of various properties in different materials by grain refinement and also discusses different mechanism of strengthening through multi-directional forging (MDF) process (a severe plastic deformation process). During last decades, the researches in the field of multi-directional forging are growing enormously, which is making MDF, an interesting process to alter various properties of the materials along with its microstructure refinement. The modification of the various different properties of materials makes multi-directional forging process versatile, in terms of increasing processed materials applications. The present review of various literature based on different materials processed by MDF of the published data is an approach to bring in attention towards the usefulness of the process, increase of knowledge about various changed materials properties via MDF and to relate various different published results in terms of processing conditions, materials used, strain applied, and grain refinement. |
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