Dynamic recrystallization initiated by direct grain reorientation at high-angle grain boundary in -titanium

H Wang and QLL Bao and G Zhou and JK Qiu and Y Yang and YJ Ma and CGG Bai and DSS Xu and D Rugg and AJJ Huang and QM Hu and JF Lei and R Yang, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH, 34, 1608-1621 (2019).

DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2019.125

Employing atomic-scale simulations, the response of a high-angle grain boundary (GB), the soft/hard GB, against external loading was systematically investigated. Under tensile loading close to the hard orientation, strain-induced dynamic recrystallization was observed to initiate through direct soft-to-hard grain reorientation, which was triggered by stress mismatch, inhibited by surface tension from the soft-hard GB, and proceeded by interface ledges. Such grain reorientation corresponds with expansion and contraction of the hard grain along and perpendicular to the loading direction, respectively, accompanied by local atomic shuffling, providing relatively large normal strain of 8.3% with activation energy of 0.04 eV per atom. Tensile strain and residual dislocations on the hard/soft GB facilitate the initiation of dynamic recrystallization by lowering the energy barrier and the critical stress for grain reorientation, respectively.

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