A novel high straining process for bulk materials—The development of a multipass forging system by compression along three axes

A new triaxial forging equipment has been designed and built to enable sequential forging of near cube samples up to strains of 3–4 and temperatures up to 450 °C. This paper presents a technical and analytic description of the system and its application to a standard AA 3103 alloy. Some first results in terms of stress–strain curves, microstructures and textures are given.