New Insight into the development of deformation texture in face-centered cubic material

Abstract

Despite a tremendous amount of research to understand the evolution of microstructural and texture changes during deformation, there is still a need for further deep insight into it. The most used deformation process underuse in industries is the rolling of material. Stacking fault energy is the most critical material property, which governs the deformation behavior. In the present study, the microstructure and texture changes of a high SFE material (pure nickel) during cold rolling was investigated. The objective is to find criteria for the change of orientation of a particular grain as rolling proceed. Pseudo-in-situ rolling was done through which the shape, orientations, and neighbors of each grain could be tracked as a function of rolling reductions. It was found that orientations of some grains remain stable after a large reduction and do not develop sub-grains within it, whereas orientations of some grains change drastically at a very low deformation level along with the evolution of a large number of sub-grains.