This paper attempts to determine the mechanisms governing the grain growth process that occurs during lamination annealing of a cold-rolled, motor-lamination steel. A new simulation approach linking a Monte Carlo model, with EBSD scans used as input, has been employed to incorporate the effects of crystallographic texture on the simulated grain growth process. The results from the texture analy...

M. Jabłońska, I. Bednarczyk, K. Rodak, A. Śmiglewicz Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Institute of Materials Science Katowice, Poland This paper presents the results of structure analysis of Fe Al alloys after hot rolling deformation. Microstructure analysis were performed before and after deformation using a scanning transmission electron microsco...

Mechanistic descriptions of void-dominated ductile failure are largely based on studies from several decades ago that relied on optical microscopy techniques [1] [2]. This talk will discuss how modern techniques, such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD), site-specific focused ion beam (FIB) sample preparation, and transmission electron microscopy (TE...

A new method for reconstructing a three-dimensional microstructure using the focused ion beam-orientation imaging microscopy (FIB-OIM) is introduced. The technique is important for the study of three-dimensional microstructures of materials because it can automatically align (register) a series of parallel sections with both topological information and orientation information at the sub-microme...