The Research Centre of Forming Technology,University of West Bohemia,Univerzitni 22,P.O.Box 314,306 14 Pilsen,Czech Republic;
Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava,Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava,Paulinska 16,917 24 Trnava,Slovak Republic;
semi-solid; state; semi-solid; forming; rapid; cooling; metastable; austenite; mini-thixoforming;