Shiraz University Iranian Journal of Materials Forming 2383-0042 5 1 2018 04 30 Ten years of severe plastic deformation (SPD) in Iran, part I: equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) 71 113 4830 10.22099/ijmf.2018.28756.1101 EN E. Bagherpour Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Shiraz University 0000-0002-7405-1949 M. Reihanian Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran 0000-0003-4618-5509 N. Pardis Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran R. Ebrahimi Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran. 0000-0001-8057-5733 T.G. Langdon Materials Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK & Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering University of Southern California Journal Article 2018 04 14 The superior properties of ultrafine-grained materials fabricated by severe plastic deformation (SPD) have attracted the attention of many researchers around the world.  Among the top-ranked countries that are active in this field, Iran is interesting because of the late beginnings of SPD in this country and, subsequently, the highest rate of growth in the number of publications during the last decade. The first Iranian work published in the field of equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) goes back to 2007, meaning that SPD research covers a period of only about ten years. Nevertheless, since that time there has been an increasing growth rate in the number of Iranian publications dealing with ECAP and especially the introduction of new methods based on ECAP and simulation of the method.  The present overview is designed to summarize the main contributions from Iran in the field of ECAP processing. Interestingly, the main contribution of Iranian researchers in ECAP is focused on simulation/modelling and the introduction of new methods of SPD based on ECAP. https://ijmf.shirazu.ac.ir/article_4830_397f396dc43420babf43de39097eeab8.pdf