A Study of Recrystallization Texture Formation in Cold Rolled Iron Sheets with X-Ray Diffraction Techniques

Abstract

AbstractThe possibility that primary recrystallization textures are influenced by local inhomogeneities of deformation induced in the regions of grain boundaries has been confirmed by comparing the cold rolling and the annealing textures of polycrystalline pure irons which were different in the grain size prior to cold rolling. Analyses were made for the effects of deformation on crystals, namely storage of lattice strain and orientation spread, with application of X-ray diffraction techniques, in order to elucidate the role of in homogeneities of deformation on recrystallization texture formation. Apparent correspondence was found between the orientation dependence of stored strain energy and the textural change on recrystallization. This is a scribed to oriented nucleation in high energy blocks, in the case of originally large-grain material in which the effects of inhomogeneities of deformation are small. But discrepancies arise on this basis in originally small - grain material in which the effects of inhomogeneities of deformation are thought to be considerable. The discrepancy is inferred to arise as an effect of local inhomogeneities of deformation, from the change in the trend of rotational orientation spreads from, a stable orientation and the extent of development of potential nuclei of recrystallization at high energy blocks in the orientation spreads. The change is considered to give rise to the variation in amount of microstrain distribution, which is expressed in recovery characteristics of lattice strains and in the dependence of microstrains on the column length as analyzed by following the procedure of Warren-Averbach.