Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2001

Publication Title

Acta Materialia

Abstract

In order to study the development of texture and boundary character during annealing, three-dimensional grain crystallography and crystallographically mediated grain boundary properties were incorporated into a finite temperature Monte Carlo model for grain growth. Randomly textured microstructures evolve normally, with growth exponent n=0.96. While texture remains random, the steady-state boundary misorientation distribution favors low-angle boundaries. To first order, low-angle boundaries increase by lengthening, not by proliferating. In contrast, microstructures with a strong single-component texture develop four-grain junctions and highly curved grain boundaries, which alter evolution. The boundary misorientation distribution narrows and shifts to low angles, and no steady state is observed. The accompanying decrease in mean boundary mobility causes growth to slow, resulting in a growth exponent n=0.62. The dependence of the growth exponent on average boundary mobility may explain experimental observations of exponents less than unity.

Volume

49

Issue

15

First Page

2981

Last Page

2991

DOI

10.1016/S1359-6454(01)00207-5

ISSN

1359-6454

Comments

This is the Preprint of an article published in Acta Materialia, volume 49, issue 15, 2001.

Version of record is available at this link from Elsevier.

Rights Statement

© 2001 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.

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