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Young's modulus of copper polycrystals with an ultrafine-grained struc
ture synthesized by two independent methods (compacting and heavy plas
tic deformation) has been measured within a temperature range from 20
to 200-300 degrees C. It has been concluded that there is a component
of the Young's modulus softening which is peculiar to metals with nano
- and submicrocrystalline structures, irrespective of the presence of
porosity.