Wrought aluminium alloys are used increasingly for critical structure applications in the automotive and aerospace industries due to high strength and desirable toughness properties.It is difficult to obtain sound mechanical properties in the wrought aluminium alloys components by the near-net shape casting as a result of many microscopic defects.Plastic forming sucah as extruding forming can eliminating these microscopic defects

however

which requires high pressure

resuting in low product efficiency

increasing additional cost due to secondary forming processes such as cutting.Semi-solid metal processing integrated with the advantages of casting and forging

is one of promising technologies capable of producing high-integrity components.Therefore

many investigation on the forming of near-net shaped wrought aluminium alloy components have been actively conducted.The thixoformability

feedstock production

microstructure and mechanical properties of wrought aluminium alloy were reviewed

and the challenges and prospect of wrought aluminium SSM processing were approached.