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This article focused on the process of grain refinement, metastable phase transformations, and microstructural defects such as stacking faults or amorphous areas that severely disrupt the face-centred cubic (FCC) crystal lattice symmetry. The findings presented in this study imply that deformation twinning, phase transformation, and amorphization are not mutually exclusive modes of Si phase deformation. Both can occur at an ECAP temperature of 150 \u00b0C. At a deformation temperature of 100 \u00b0C, amorphization is the dominant deformation mode of the Si phase. It was also discovered that dislocation slip was the predominant deformation mode of Al matrix at 150 \u00b0C, while at 100 \u00b0C, additionally stacking faults were formed within the Al matrix. The present findings provide not only a fundamental understanding of the deformation micro-mechanism of the SLMed AlSi10Mg alloy but also open a new horizon for the development of the next generation of structural materials.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym15040860","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,5]],"date-time":"2023-04-05T02:59:43Z","timestamp":1680663583000},"page":"860","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Electron Microscopy Study of Structural Defects Formed in Additively Manufactured AlSi10Mg Alloy Processed by Equal Channel Angular Pressing"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4108-0903","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Przemys\u0142aw","family":"Snopi\u0144ski","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Silesian University of Technology, 18A Konarskiego Street, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"103478","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mechmat.2020.103478","article-title":"Deformation mechanisms of the subgranular cellular structures in selective laser melted 316L stainless steel","volume":"148","author":"Kurian","year":"2020","journal-title":"Mech. 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