Which mechanism leads to increased material brittleness after cold forging?

💡 Explanation

Cold forging introduces significant plastic deformation, causing work hardening via dislocation generation because the metal's crystalline structure becomes increasingly imperfect, therefore, increasing its brittleness, rather than annealing, grain growth, or precipitation hardening occurring.

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