Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1962 · 437 citations · 5 references
Natural SciencesMaterials EngineeringMaterials ScienceMetallic MaterialsMetallurgyPhase TransformationsAlloysCrystallization ProcessesGrain GrowthGrain Structure FormationMetallurgical KineticsMicrostructure EvolutionBoundary Migration KineticsGrain BoundariesGrain Boundary MigrationGrain Boundary MobilityPolycrystalline MaterialsPrimary RecrystallizationRecrystallizationRecrystallization Kinetics
Abstract Electron microscope observations on some polycrystalline metals suggest that after small to moderate deformation, recrystallization occurs by the migration of the original grain boundaries. A theory based on this mechanism can account for the known form of the recrystallization kinetics without necessarily introducing any anisotropy of grain boundary mobility. For this mechanism the so-called recrystallization activation energy is identical to the activation energy for grain boundary migration.
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