Grain Growth and Other Microstructural Changes

3 Grain growth and other microstructural changes. When a deformed metal is heated, it will recrysiallise, that is to say, a new population of crystal grains will 

The merits and demerits of the many computer-simulation approaches to grain growth are critically analysed in a book chapter by Humphreys and Hatherly (1995), and the reader is referred to this to gain an appreciation of how alternative modelling strategies can be compared and evaluated. A still more recent and very clear critical comparison of the various modelling approaches is by Miodownik (2001). 

Grain growth involves no phase transformation, but a number of such transformations have been modelled and simulated in recent years. A recently published overview volume relates some experimental observations of phase 

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