The orientations of recrystallization nuclei and their adjacent as-deformed regions have been characterised in deformed single crystals
of different metals (Ag, Cu, Cu-2%wt.Al and Cu-8%wt.Al) in which twinning and/or shear banding occur. {112}<111> oriented crystals of
these metals have been compressed to different strains, then lightly annealed, and the crystallographic aspects of the recrystallization process
along shear bands examined by local orientation measurement in TEM and SEM.
The results clearly show the existence of a well-defined crystallographic relation between the local deformation substructure and the
first recrystallized areas of uniform orientation. The first-formed nuclei always exhibit near 25–400(<111>–<112>) type misorientations, in
the direction of highest growth, with respect to one of the two main groups of the deformation texture components. The rotation axes can
be correlated with the slip plane normal of highest activity. As recrystallization proceeds, recrystallization twinning develops strongly and
facilitates rapid growth; the first and higher generations of twins then tend to obscure the initial primary crystallographic relation between the
shear bands and recrystallization nuclei .
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