“…This general effect was reported in the very early experiments of Bridgman [34] where it was claimed that finely divided powder emerges as a homogeneous disc after shearing. In fact, there are many reports of the consolidation of metallic particles by HPT [23,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42] and initial observations of the processed discs suggest a full consolidation. Earlier reports described good consolidation of pure magnesium machining chips [25,43] after only five turns of HPT.…”