The structural heterogeneity of a polycrystalline Ni subjected to dynamic plastic deformation to a strain of 2.3 was characterized, and its influence on the structural coarsening behaviour during post annealing was investigated. Structural heterogeneity on the large scale manifests itself by formation of two types of layers: low misoriented regions (LMRs) and highly misoriented regions (HMRs). ...

Models of MnO2 nanoparticles, with full atomistic detail, have been generated using a simulated amorphization and recrystallization strategy. In particular, a 25,000-atom "cube" of MnO2 was amorphized (tension-induced) under molecular dynamics (MD). Long-duration MD, applied to this system, results in the sudden evolution of a small crystalline region of pyrolusite-structured MnO2, which acts a...

Abnormal subgrain growth has been proposed as the nucleation mechanism for recrystallization. To test this hypothesis, Monte Carlo Potts model simulations of subgrain growth were performed on single-phase, strain-free subgrain structures with experimentally validated microstructure, texture, boundary character, and boundary properties. Results indicate that abnormal growth events emerge spontan...

The purpose of this study was to discuss the microstructure, recrystallization, and mechanical property evolutions in the heat-affected zones and fusion zones during dissimilar stainless steels welding. The morphology, quantity and chemical composition of the -ferrite were analyzed by using optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) and ele...

The present paper is an attempt to use ultrasonic velocity measurements to characterize the texture of an aluminum-magnesium alloy ( Al 5xxx ) and to compare the results with orientation imaging microscopy ( OIM ) results. The results are characterized in terms of three orientation distribution coefficients ( ODC's ), W400 , W420 , and W440 , each of which describes a particular forming anisotr...

Coated multiparticulate systems are increasingly popular on the market. Their manufacture in a fluid bed often requires polymer binders. Polymers have been widely studied as inhibitors of crystallization [1]. Migration of drugs into the coating layer has also been described [2] but the influence of the coating polymers on the crystallization of the drug is yet to be studied in more depth. In ou...

The subgrain structure of hot rolled aluminum alloy AA 5005 has been characterized on as-received samples using Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD). Based on the OIM scans of RD-ND and TD-ND, 3 dimensional microstructures of subgrains are built up using the 3D Microstructure Builder, which is a method for developing statistically representative digital representations of microstructures. Fo...