Retraction of: Phenomenological Models to Predict the Flow Stress up to the Peak of as-Extruded 7050 Aluminum Alloy

Retraction of: Yu-Feng Xia, Jia Zhao, Lai Jiang, Shuai Long and Tian-yu Wang. Received May 20, 2016; accepted September 2, 2016. Phenomenological Models to Predict the Flow Stress up to the Peak of as-Extruded 7050 Aluminum Alloy. This article was published online in High Temp. Mater. Proc. (DOI 10.1515/htmp-2016-0094).

The above article has been retracted by agreement between the editor-in-chief Professor Hiroyuki Fukuyama and Walter De Gruyter GmbH. After being notified of similarities between previously published research, the editorial committee examined the articles and concluded that significant portions of the article were copied from the following articles:

Soheil Solhjoo, Antonis I. Vakis, Yutao T. Pei, Two phenomenological models to predict the single peak flow stress curves up to the peak during hot deformation, Mechanics of Materials 105 (2017) 61-66. (DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2016.12.001) and Soheil Solhjoo, Two new mathematical models to predict the flow stress at hot deformation, https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5929