The microstructural features of polycrystals determine numerous properties, whereas the evolution of crystallographic texture is responsible for the anisotropy of particular properties. Therefore, it is of crucial importance to find proper quantitati...
The texture and the bulk stored energy along the thickness direction were extremely inhomogeneous in the clock-rolled tantalum sheets with 70% reduction. Therefore, the effects of different annealing temperatures on the microstructure and texture dis...
Radio frequency (RF) heating was applied to stirred yoghurt after culturing in order to enhance the shelf-life and thereby meet industrial demands in countries where the distribution cold chain cannot be implicitly guaranteed. In parallel, a convecti...
This study presents a comprehensive grayscale texture analysis framework for investigating the microstructural evolution of cement-based materials during hydration. High-resolution X-ray computed tomography (X-CT) slice images were analyzed across fi...
The Ti-62222 (Ti-6Al-2Sn-2Zr-2Mo-2Cr) alloy has considerable potential for structural applications in the aerospace industry owing to its exceptional fracture resistance and specific strength. This study investigates the influence of local strain par...
Industrialization trial production of high permeability (Hi-B) steel was carried out by “one cold rolled + decarburization and nitridation technologies”. The finished product reached the level of 23Q100 with an average grain size of 5.47...
In order to improve the magnetic properties of non-oriented silicon steel, the effects of different normalizing temperatures on the microstructure, texture, and magnetic properties of 3.0%Si 0.8%Al non-oriented silicon steel were studied by OM, EBSD,...
The local microstructure, texture gradient and mechanical properties through the shoulder dimension (10 mm) of upper and lower AA5182 aluminum sheets were investigated using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and Vickers microhardness after fric...
The effect of shear deformation introduced by differential speed rolling (DSR) on the microstructure, texture and mechanical properties of Mg-6Sn alloy was investigated. Mg-6Sn sheets were obtained by DSR at speed ratio between upper and lower rolls...
The effects of repetitive upsetting extrusion under different starting temperatures on the microstructure and texture of GWZK124 alloy were investigated. The results clearly showed that the particles and second phases induced dynamic recrystallizatio...
One hundred and thirty-five degree clock rolling significantly improves the texture homogeneity of tantalum sheets along the thickness, but a distinctly fragmented substructure is formed within {111} (<111>//normal direction (ND)) and {100} (&l...
In this study, the effect of the hot-cold rolling process on the evolution of the microstructure, texture and magnetic properties of strip-cast non-oriented electrical steel was investigated by introducing hot rolling with different reductions. The r...
As a kind of typical high stacking fault energy materials, recrystallization behavior of high purity Al-0.5%Cu alloy is significantly influenced by the annealing process. In this study, different heating rate, target temperature, and holding time wer...
The research presented in this paper is part of a larger project concerning high-manganese alloys with different chemical compositions (mainly in manganese content from 21 to 31 wt.%). The presented examination results concern the analysis of the mic...
The microstructure and texture distribution of ultra-high purity Cu-0.1Al alloy target play a key role in the quality of the sputtering film. The Cu-0.1Al alloy sheets were processed by unidirectional (UR) and cross rolling (CR), and X-ray diffractio...
Commercial oxygen-free copper sheets were cold-rolled with reduction rates ranging from 20% to 87% and annealed at 400, 500 and 600 °C. The microstructure and texture evolution during the cold-rolling and annealing processes were studied using op...
With advanced integrated circuit semiconductor chips, the uniformity of microstructure and texture is increasingly required for tantalum (Ta) targets. A combination of warm rolling and 135° cross rolling (CR) at the temperature of 500 °C and...
In order to produce a more isotropic Al-Mg-Si alloy sheet in the T4 temper, pre-annealed AA6016 hot rolled strips were cold rolled by conventional rolling, transverse rolling and an alternative rolling schedule. In this work, a weak and random textur...
Ti65 alloy (Ti-5.8Al-4.0Sn-3.5Zr-0.5Mo-0.4Si-0.3Nb-1.0Ta-0.8W-0.05C) is the newly developed high temperature titanium alloy optimized from Ti60 alloys. The long-term service temperature of the alloy is as high as 650 °C, which is unattainable wit...
The paper aimed to study the evolution of the microstructure and texture gradient of a 321-type metastable austenitic stainless steel during cold rotary swaging. Cold rotary swaging was carried out with a reduction of up to 90% at ambient temperature...
In order to explore the microstructure, texture, individual performance, and grain size characteristic evolution law during the process of multipass cold rolling, graded annealing process, the experimental design, research approach, and methodology w...
The welded joint of a dissimilar titanium alloy was obtained via inertial friction welding technology. The characteristics of the bonding interface and the microstructure of the welded joint were investigated via optical microscopy, scanning electron...
Leaded brass alloys with high zinc content are classified as dual-phase (α-β′) brass alloys. For these alloys, α-β′ phase transformation induced by thermomechanical processing (TMP) is expected to play a significant role not only in the formation of...
Reciprocating Upsetting-Extrusion (RUE) deformation process can significantly refine the grains size and weaken the basal plane texture by applying a large cumulative strain to the alloy, which is of great significance to weaken the anisotropy of mag...
To investigate the influence of Zn-alloying on the microstructure and tensile mechanical properties of Mg–6Bi alloy after hot extrusion, a new ternary Mg–6Bi–3Zn alloy was prepared by extrusion at 300 °C. The microstructures, te...
The rotating backward extrusion (RBE) process, as a new severe plastic deformation (SPD) process, is based on conventional backward extrusion and rotation, which meets the requirement of modern industrial development with its high performance and pro...
Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is one of the most promising additive manufacturing (AM) technologies using metal powders. It has been increasingly applied in variety of industrial and engineering fields, including but not limited to aviation, aerospa...
In current research, the effect of the multi-directional forging (MDF) process on the microstructure, texture, mechanical and electrical properties of AA-6063 under different heat treatment conditions at various MDF temperatures was studied. The anne...
To improve the production process and produce high-quality annealed drawn and ironed (DI) plate, continuous annealing experiments were carried out at 620 °C, 640 °C, 680 °C, and 720 °C, and the effect of continuous annealing temperatu...
In this study, for the first time, the effect of large non-monotonic simple shear strains on the uniformity of the tensile properties of pure Cu specimens was studied and justified by means of microstructural and textural investigations. A process ca...
Annular channel angular extrusion has been recently developed as a new single-pass severe plastic deformation method suitable for producing large size cup-shaped parts from cylindrical billets. In this study, the novel technology was successfully app...
In the current work, mild steel used in shipbuilding applications was friction-stir-welded (FSWed) with the aim of investigating the microstructure and mechanical properties of the FSWed joints. Mild steel of 5 mm thickness was friction-stir-welded a...
Gradient variations of through-thickness residual stress, microstructure and texture greatly affect the performance of cold radial forged tubes. In this work, the through-thickness distribution of residual stress was measured based on the Debye ring....
In this work, the comparison of microstructure, texture, and mechanical properties of the newly developed TZ61 (Mg-6Sn-1Zn) alloy with the commercially available AZ61 (Mg-6Al-1Zn) has been presented. Both analyzed Mg alloys were processed by conventi...
Improving the isotropic magnetic properties of FeSi electrical steels has traditionally focused on enhancing their crystallographic texture and microstructural morphology. Strengthening the cube texture within a ferritic matrix of optimal grain size...
The effect of warm rolling temperature on microstructure and texture of microcarbon dual-phase (DP) steel was investigated through scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM)...
The superplastic tensile test was carried out on SP700 (Ti-4.5Al-3V-2Mo-2Fe) titanium alloy sheet at 760 °C by the method of maximum m value, and the microstructure characteristics were investigated to understand the deformation mechanism. The re...
The effects of Nb content on precipitation, microstructure, texture and magnetic properties of primary recrystallized grain-oriented silicon steel were investigated by various methods. The results show that the precipitates in primary recrystallized...
Mg–13Gd–4Y–2Zn–0.5Zr alloy was subjected to compression–torsion deformation at 450 °C with a strain rate of 0.001–0.5 s−1 using a Gleeble 3500 torsion unit. The effects of compression–torsion deform...
This work is to study the microstructure and texture evolution of AZ31 alloy prepared by cyclic expansion extrusion with an asymmetrical extrusion cavity (CEE-AEC) at different deformation temperatures. The result shows AZ31 alloy undergoes continuou...
High-pressure torsion (HPT) is an effective severe plastic deformation method to produce ultrafine-grained (UFG) and nanocrystalline (NC) materials. In the past, most studies have focused on the evolutions in the microstructure, texture and mechanica...
Magnesium (Mg) and its alloys are currently the lightest structural metals in engineering applications, widely used in aerospace, defense technology, transportation and electronic 3C fields. Plastic deformation is a commonly used method to improve th...
Magnetic Barkhausen noise (MBN) analysis has recently emerged as a powerful nondestructive tool for probing crystallographic orientation, phase transformation, and microstructural stress distribution in ferromagnetic materials. This review aims to su...
This article overviews the scientific results of the microstructural features observed in 316 L stainless steel manufactured by the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) method obtained by the authors, and discusses the results with respect to the recently...
Pigeons have been the subject of research in the past, but the knowledge gained is incomplete and must be extended. The aim of the study was to provide information about differences in carcass weight and measurements, carcass composition, proximate c...
It is of great importance to study the microstructure and textural evolution of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) formed Hastelloy-X alloys, in order to establish a close relationship between the process, microstructure, and properties through the regul...
The effect of hot working parameters on the microstructure and texture evolution of the hot-deformed Zr-45Ti-5Al-3V alloy was studied by the electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) technique. It was found that a high density of dislocations were gene...
A Ti bearing interstitial-free steel was finishing rolled in the ferrite region with and without lubrication and microstructures, mechanical properties and textures evolution during warm rolling and subsequent annealing were investigated by OM, SEM,...
A novel X-ray diffraction-based method and computer program X-TEX has been developed to determine the microstructure in individual texture components of polycrystalline, textured materials. Two different approaches are presented. In the first one, ba...
In the present work, the microstructure and texture evolution of ferritic stainless steel during unidirectional cold rolling were investigated, and the Visco-Plastic Self-Consistent (VPSC) polycrystal model was used for the simulation of texture duri...
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