Accumulative roll-bonding of aluminum alloys and composites: An overview of properties and performance

As the suitable severe plastic deformation technique that can be used on an industrial scale, accumulative roll-bonding (ARB) has a significant impact in both scientific and industrial fields. According to its large spectrum of advantages, such as the high potential to attain substantial grain refinement up to nanostructures, its great possibility in the production of laminated, layered, graded, and composite materials, as well as its ability to design tailored, intelligent, and functionally graded structures with excellent properties, ARB can be regarded as a sophisticated technology to manufacture custom-designed products in large scale. In this regard, it is of eminence importance to thoroughly study the ARB method and its newly introduced variants in addition to the resultant properties along with the influential parameters. This review paper attempts to include briefly these subjects and show their wide capabilities. Hence, it firstly focuses on the ARB method and its newly developed techniques. Subsequently, the ARB-produced multi-component and composite materials were discussed with special attention to the utilized particle reinforcements and production of graded, laminated, and composite structures. Finally, the properties and performance of these materials were discussed with a focus concentrated on electrical resistivity, corrosion, and wear behavior. It is believed that this review paper can be a helpful guideline to both academics and industry specialists to upgrade and design new procedures to achieve excellent and high-throughput techniques with superior properties to satisfy the new demands of the industry.