scholarly journals Misorientation distribution of high angle boundaries formed by grain fragmentation: EBSD-based characterization and analysis performed on heavily deformed iron

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Yu. Zolotorevsky ◽  
V. V. Rybin ◽  
A. N. Matvienko ◽  
E. A. Ushanova ◽  
S. N. Sergeev
2006 ◽  
Vol 503-504 ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Salvatori

Refinement of grain size is one of the biggest challenges to produce steels with improved combination of strength and toughness. Ultrafine structures are being produced world-wide on various materials, including low carbon steel, using different types of processes. However, the majority of these processes also exhibit severe limitations because they are generally restricted to small samples and are difficult to be implemented on an industrial scale. A promising technique for industrial implementation is the Accumulative Roll Bonding (ARB), a process able to supply large samples, even in the laboratory scale. In this paper, warm intense straining (ε = 4) by ARB was applied to a plain low-C steel in order to develop ultrafine grains, aiming at sizes around 1-2 μm, suitable to maintain an adequate combination of strength and ductility. The effect of annealing conditions on the evolution of the work-hardened microstructure and the bonding behaviour after each pass were investigated. Orientation Imaging Microscopy was used to investigate the microstructure and give a quantitative assessment of high angle and low angle boundaries. It is showed that the frequency of high angle grain boundaries increases with the strain but the misorientation distribution remained far from that typical of a recrystallised material.


2004 ◽  
Vol 467-470 ◽  
pp. 1211-1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.Yu. Mironov ◽  
Gennady A. Salishchev ◽  
Sergey V. Zherebtsov

The microstructure and texture evolutions in pure titanium during severe plastic deformation at T=400°C were investigated. Compressive deformation of prismatic samples was sequentially applied in three orthogonal directions up to 12 steps and a strain at each step of 40%. A radical microstructure refinement (from 20 to 0.2 µm) during strain has been found. The features of the deformation structure are a high level of internal stresses, high density of dislocations, a large number of deformation induced boundaries and the presence of twins. It is shown that during strain there is a significant change in disorientation angles and axes of individual high angle grain boundaries. At the same time the total set of high angle boundaries - Misorientation Distribution Function (MDF) and texture - does not change significantly with strain. The reasons for the change in disorientation angles and axes at new deformation-induced boundaries during plastic flow are discussed.


2004 ◽  
Vol 467-470 ◽  
pp. 1145-1150 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.R. Barrabes ◽  
M.E. Kassner ◽  
Maria Teresa Pérez-Prado ◽  
E. Evangelista

The micron-size grain refinement of pure a-zirconium obtained with elevated temperature tensile deformation was investigated. The development of low-misorientation subboundaries caused the serration of the original grain boundaries at low strains. The final microstructure (e.g. strains > 3) was predominantly composed of fine, equiaxed “crystallites” with ⅔ of the boundaries being of very low misorientations (< 3°) and the remaining ⅓ being high angle boundaries (θ > 8°, and typically 25-35°). Discontinuous dynamic recrystallization was excluded as a possible mechanism due to the absence of newly formed grain nuclei. The bimodal distribution of the crystallite or (sub)grain boundary misorientations is inconsistent with the occurrence of continuous dynamic recrystallization and rotational recrystallization. The continual thinning of the original grains, the serration of the high angle boundaries, the bimodal misorientation distribution of misorientations, ⅔ of boundaries of very low misorientations at high strains all strongly suggest geometric dynamic recrystallization and dynamic recovery as the grain refinement and restoration mechanisms.


2013 ◽  
Vol 762 ◽  
pp. 31-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han Dong ◽  
Wen Quan Cao ◽  
Jie Shi

The behavior of 60% cold-rolled medium-manganese steel (0.1C5Mn) during intercritical annealing, has been examined using various techniques. Microstructural observations showed a slight coarsening of the subgrain/grain structure during intercritical annealing, without any apparent change in the misorientation distribution. In addition, the formation of ultrafine austenite grains took place mainly at high-angle boundaries and rarely at low angle boundaries, suggesting a heterogeneous austenite nucleation process in this steel. The results indicated that the annealing behavior of cold rolled medium manganese steels is controlled by the extensive recovery of the ferrite phase and formation of austenite phase with an austenite volume fraction of ~20%. It was proposed that the segregation of manganese and carbon to high-angle boundaries promoted austenite nucleation and growth, as such segregation decreases the Gibbs energy of austenite.


Author(s):  
J. W. Matthews ◽  
W. M. Stobbs

Many high-angle grain boundaries in cubic crystals are thought to be either coincidence boundaries (1) or coincidence boundaries to which grain boundary dislocations have been added (1,2). Calculations of the arrangement of atoms inside coincidence boundaries suggest that the coincidence lattice will usually not be continuous across a coincidence boundary (3). There will usually be a rigid displacement of the lattice on one side of the boundary relative to that on the other. This displacement gives rise to a stacking fault in the coincidence lattice.Recently, Pond (4) and Smith (5) have measured the lattice displacement at coincidence boundaries in aluminum. We have developed (6) an alternative to the measuring technique used by them, and have used it to find two of the three components of the displacement at {112} lateral twin boundaries in gold. This paper describes our method and presents a brief account of the results we have obtained.


Author(s):  
P.R. Swann ◽  
A.E. Lloyd

Figure 1 shows the design of a specimen stage used for the in situ observation of phase transformations in the temperature range between ambient and −160°C. The design has the following features a high degree of specimen stability during tilting linear tilt actuation about two orthogonal axes for accurate control of tilt angle read-out high angle tilt range for stereo work and habit plane determination simple, robust construction temperature control of better than ±0.5°C minimum thermal drift and transmission of vibration from the cooling system.


Author(s):  
C. W. Price

Little evidence exists on the interaction of individual dislocations with recrystallized grain boundaries, primarily because of the severely overlapping contrast of the high dislocation density usually present during recrystallization. Interesting evidence of such interaction, Fig. 1, was discovered during examination of some old work on the hot deformation of Al-4.64 Cu. The specimen was deformed in a programmable thermomechanical instrument at 527 C and a strain rate of 25 cm/cm/s to a strain of 0.7. Static recrystallization occurred during a post anneal of 23 s also at 527 C. The figure shows evidence of dissociation of a subboundary at an intersection with a recrystallized high-angle grain boundary. At least one set of dislocations appears to be out of contrast in Fig. 1, and a grainboundary precipitate also is visible. Unfortunately, only subgrain sizes were of interest at the time the micrograph was recorded, and no attempt was made to analyze the dislocation structure.


Author(s):  
D.R. Rasmussen ◽  
N.-H. Cho ◽  
C.B. Carter

Domains in GaAs can exist which are related to one another by the inversion symmetry, i.e., the sites of gallium and arsenic in one domain are interchanged in the other domain. The boundary between these two different domains is known as an antiphase boundary [1], In the terminology used to describe grain boundaries, the grains on either side of this boundary can be regarded as being Σ=1-related. For the {110} interface plane, in particular, there are equal numbers of GaGa and As-As anti-site bonds across the interface. The equilibrium distance between two atoms of the same kind crossing the boundary is expected to be different from the length of normal GaAs bonds in the bulk. Therefore, the relative position of each grain on either side of an APB may be translated such that the boundary can have a lower energy situation. This translation does not affect the perfect Σ=1 coincidence site relationship. Such a lattice translation is expected for all high-angle grain boundaries as a way of relaxation of the boundary structure.


Author(s):  
M. Libera ◽  
J.A. Ott ◽  
K. Siangchaew ◽  
L. Tsung

Channeling occurs when fast electrons follow atomic strings in a crystal where there is a minimum in the potential energy (1). Channeling has a strong effect on high-angle scattering. Deviations in atomic position along a channel due to structural defects or thermal vibrations increase the probability of scattering (2-5). Since there are no extended channels in an amorphous material the question arises: for a given material with constant thickness, will the high-angle scattering be higher from a crystal or a glass?Figure la shows a HAADF STEM image collected using a Philips CM20 FEG TEM/STEM with inner and outer collection angles of 35mrad and lOOmrad. The specimen (6) was a cross section of singlecrystal Si containing: amorphous Si (region A), defective Si containing many stacking faults (B), two coherent Ge layers (CI; C2), and a contamination layer (D). CBED patterns (fig. lb), PEELS spectra, and HAADF signals (fig. lc) were collected at 106K and 300K along the indicated line.


Author(s):  
Y. Sato ◽  
T. Hashimoto ◽  
M. Ichihashi ◽  
Y. Ueki ◽  
K. Hirose ◽  
...  

Analytical TEMs have two variations in x-ray detector geometry, high and low angle take off. The high take off angle is advantageous for accuracy of quantitative analysis, because the x rays are less absorbed when they go through the sample. The low take off angle geometry enables better sensitivity because of larger detector solid angle.Hitachi HF-2000 cold field emission TEM has two versions; high angle take off and low angle take off. The former allows an energy dispersive x-ray detector above the objective lens. The latter allows the detector beside the objective lens. The x-ray take off angle is 68° for the high take off angle with the specimen held at right angles to the beam, and 22° for the low angle take off. The solid angle is 0.037 sr for the high angle take off, and 0.12 sr for the low angle take off, using a 30 mm2 detector.


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