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Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is a well-established method in the recent years for grain refinement in metallic materials. Equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) is one of the most effective SPD techniques. Inherent failures of ECAP, consisting in billet damage, take place if not made a correct process design. In this article, the evolution of damaging for a difficult-to-work Al-Mg alloy during...