Tungsten has been chosen as the main candidate for plasma facing components (PFCs) due to its superior properties under extreme operating conditions in future nuclear fusion reactors such as ITER. One of the serious issues for PFCs is the high heat load during transient events such as ELMs and disruption in the reactor. Recrystallization and grain size growth in PFC materials caused by transien...

High density grain boundaries provide high strength, but may introduce undesirable features, such as high Fermi levels and instability. We investigated the kinetics of recovery and recrystallization of Cu that was manufactured to include both nanotwins (NT) and high-angle columnar boundaries. We used the isothermal Johnson-Mehl-Avrami-Kolmogorov (JMAK) model to estimate activation energy values...

The formation of a recrystallization texture is closely related to the nucleation and growth of recrystallizing grains, which may vary from grain to grain. Cube texture is a commonly observed recrystallization texture in face centered cubic metals of medium to high stacking fault energy after heavy cold-rolling and annealing. In this work, recrystallization of pure copper cold-rolled to a von M...

A new numerical approach for the efficient computation of grain boundary motion is used to simulate normal grain growth and recrystallization in three dimensions with high accuracy. The method is based on the diffusion of signed distance functions and shares similarities with level set methods. The Herring angle condition at junctions and topological transitions are naturally captured with this...

Recrystallization and structural recovery in α-decay damage in zircon samples have been studied using Raman spectroscopy. Fifteen zircon samples with different degrees of radiation damage have been thermally annealed between 600 K and 1800 K for up to 28 days and 8 hours. The experimental results from this study reveal that recrystallization in the damaged zircon samples is a multi-stage proces...

In the present work the recrystallization behavior of deep drawing grade Al-killed low carbon steel sheets produced by Mobarakeh Steel Plant (MSP) has been studied. Salt bath isothermal annealing has b...

Introduction: Ice grain size controls the geodynamic evolution of the ice I shells of large to mid-sized icy satellites. Grain size controls the viscosity of ice [1,2], and thus, the heat flux from the outer ice I shell by controlling the likelihood and efficiency of convection. In addition, the rheology of ice controls the depth to the brittle/ductile transition, which is a key control on endo...

This work addresses two transitions in material behavior: one, the initial peak in stress response associated with dynamic recrystallization and two, the rapid increase in grain growth rate associated with pore separation from grain boundaries. A criterion is derived that predicts the initial peak in stress response associated with dynamic recrystallization, and another criterion is derived tha...

Using different homogenization treatments, different initial microchemistry conditions in terms of solid solution levels of Mn, and number densities and sizes of constituents and dispersoids were achieved in an Al-Mn-Fe-Si model alloy. For each homogenized condition, the microchemistry and microstructure, which further change both during deformation and subsequent annealing, were quantitatively...