The procedures and their differences of two kinds of zirconium alloy rod manufacturing processes,the hot rolling process and the hot rolling/hot swaging process,were briefly introduced.A series of properties including mechanical property,corrosion property,microstructure,texture and so on,were done on N36 zirconium alloy rods manufactured by hot rolling process and hot rolling/hot swaging process.The results show that the over-all properties of hot rolled rods are superior to those of hot swaged rods.It is ...