Characters of Coarse Grains Subdivisions in Rolled Polycrystalline Al
Deformation microstructures and micro-orientations of columnar grains with different orientations in a polycrystalline high purity Al cold-rolled up to 65% (thickness reduction) were investigated using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) technique. It was found that rotations were Inhomogeneous within the individual grains, the rotation angles of the parts close to the initial boundaries (BPs) were smaller than those remote from the boundaries (IPs), e.g. the deviation angles between the BPs and the IPs were 5-6° in the grains with <001>//RD orientation, leading to the rotation along the α-fiber, while the deviation angles were 5-12° in the grains with <121>//ND orientation rotating toward the β-fiber. These results demonstrated that the microstructures and local rotations of various parts within the rolled individual columnar grains were influenced by their initial orientations and boundaries.