Abstract
Isochronal annealing experiments in the temperature range 25–700° C revealed the existence of three annealing stages (stages IV, V and VI) in the annealing spectrum of cold-worked Fe-0.006 wt.% C by observing the associated changes in maximum magnetic susceptibility (χmax) and magnetic coercivity (Hcr). Stage IV centered around 220° C appears only in the recovery of heavily cold-worked samples, activated by 1.1 eV, is attributed to the free-migration of vacancies. Stage IV disappears in the recovery spectrum of low-deformed samples and is inferred to the complete capture of vacancies originated during plastic deformation by carbon-atoms in the matrix. The recovery stage V, attributed to the dissocation of carbon-vacancy pairs, is found to be activated by an energy 1.8 eV. The binding energy between the carbon atom and vacancy is found to be 0.7 eV. The mechanism responsible for this recovery stage is enhanced by increasing the degree of plastic deformation in the matrix. The recovery stage VI appears above 450° C, activated by 2.8 eV, and the process is related to the climb motion of dislocations during the recrystallization process.
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