Effect of Initial Grain Sizes on Strain Induced Boundary Migration

Abstract

Examination of the SIBM mechanism based on the dislocation substructure at the interior of the Goss oriented grain was carried out by changing the grain size prior to the temper rolling. The following results were obtained. 1) SIBM significantly increased Goss orientation during the eminent grain growth with the initial grain sizes from 18 to 55μm. 2) When the initial grain sizes were large, i.e. 37μm and 55μm, the rolling with the reduction beneath the critical value could not promote SIBM, even the normal grain growth could also be hindered. Consequently a proposal was made that the nucleation of the recovery appeared among substructure domains containing sluggish strain. There exists an adequate size of the domain which varies with the change both of the rolling reduction and the initial grain size.