Crystallography of Recrystallization in Al and Cu with Fiber Texture

Abstract

The interest in the crystallography of structural transformations is driven by emerging capabilities in texture control and by the resulting anisotropy of the physical-mechanical properties of functional materials and products. The recrystallization texture of cold-drawn Cu and Al samples after recrystallization annealing at different temperatures was studied using EBSD. Equivalent deformation textures of Al and Cu are transformed into different recrystallization textures. The recrystallization nuclei in Al are formed at high-angle boundaries between deformed grains close to Σ3 CSL boundaries. The recrystallization nuclei in Cu are formed inside the deformed grains at twin boundaries (Σ3). The recrystallization nuclei in both Al and Cu are the crystallites whose boundaries approximately correspond to misorientation rotated about the axis at an angle of 52–70° from a deformed matrix. The physical interpretation of the results will allow for the development of new models and the enhancement of existing models of texture inheritance.

Keywords

• deformation
• recrystallization
• drawing
• FCC metal
• texture
• orientation microscopy