Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 2011, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (4): 287-294.DOI: 10.11890/1006-7191-114-287

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Mesoscale simulation of discontinuous dynamic recrystallization using the cellular automaton method

Baojun YU, Xiaojun GUAN,Lijun WANG, Qingkai ZENG, Qianqian LIU, Yu CAO   

  1. Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China
  • Received:2010-11-01 Revised:2011-03-31 Online:2011-08-25 Published:2011-08-18
  • Contact: Xiaojun GUAN

Abstract: A dynamic recrystallization (DRX) cellular automaton (CA) model that can mark the microstructure with DRX circle was developed. The effects of initial grain size on the stress-strain curve, mean grain size and DRX fraction were mainly investigated, and the simulated results were compared with those obtained from previous researches. The results show that the shape of the stress-strain curve is sensitive, while the stress and mean grain size at the steady state are insensitive to the initial grain size. The transition from a multiple-peak stress-strain curve to a single-peak one can be explained by variations in DRX circle fraction, and the initial grain size to make this transition is between 70 and 80 μm.

Key words: Dynamic recrystallization, Cellular automaton, DRX circle, Copper