• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 1999.03a
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• pp.149-152
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• 1999

The effect of initial orientation on the microstructure and texture evolution of two ferritic stainless steels was investigated. the columnar and equiaxed crystal specimens which were prepared from continuous casting slab were hot rolled annealed cold rolled and annealed respectively. The rolling and recrystallization textures at each process stage were examined by orientation distribution function (ODF) and electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD); The observation showed that the orientation density of the $\alpha$-fibre of hot rolled band of columnar crystal specimen was more pronounced than that of the equaxed one at the center layer. Nevertheless the cold rolled textures of Type 430 steel have demonstrated a rather similar development . Compared to Type 430 steel the development of the $\alpha$-fibre in the center layer of Type 409L steel was much more pronounced. The relation between texture evolution and ridging behaviour has been discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.96-98
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• 2003

The evolution of texture and microstructure during continuous confined strip shearing (CCSS) in aluminum 3003 alloy sheets was investigated. The tools of CCSS based on the equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) were designed to provide a constant shear deformation of the order of 0.5 per pass while preserving the original sheet shape. FEM results indicated that the shear formation is not homogeneous throughout the sample thickness, in particular at the surface layers. A randomization of textures took place during the CCSS deformation. Observations by TEM and EBSD revealed the formation of sub-micrometer sized grains after CCSS.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.255-261
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• 2002

The grain size of 7010 Al alloy was refined to submicrometer level by using equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) and additional warm rolling. The mechanisms of grain refinement in ECAP process were fragmentation of coarse grain to ultra fine subgrains after a few passes and continuous recrystallization of the subgrains with the increase o( passes. Because of ultrafine grain size, essentially low temperature and high strain rate superplasticity was observed after ECAP process and warm rolling to form a sheet metal. The maximum elongation of 700% was obtained for an ECA pressed specimen after IS passes without warm rolling at $450^{\circ}C$ with strain rate of 5x$10^{-3}$/sec.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.39.2-39.2
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• 2011

7075알루미늄 합금은 기계적 강도가 가장 높은 고강도 합금으로 열처리 공정이 반드시 필요하다. 그러나 열처리 공정 중 재료의 두께에 따른 내부 온도의 차이로 인한 잔류응력이 발생하여 최종 제품의 치수에 변화를 일으켜 제품 생산에 어려움이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서 극저온 열처리 공정을 통하여 야기되는 7075알루미늄 합금의 기계적 특성 및 미세조직에 관하여 연구하였다. 7075 알루미늄 합금은 석출경화를 통한 강화가 이루어지며, 석출경화를 위해서 용체화 처리를 하여 인공시효를 하는 기존 공정과 비교하여 극저온 열처리 공정은 두 개의 추가적인 단계를 가지고 있다. 첫 번째 단계는 -196도의 액체 질소 속에 샘플을 극저온 ��칭을 하는 단계이고, 두 번째 단계는 샘플의 온도를 급격하게 올리는 up-hill quenching이다. 잔류응력은 X-ray diffraction을 이용한 $sin2{\psi}$ 방법으로 측정되었다. 극저온 열처리 후 기계적 특성을 평가하기 위하여 vickers hardness를 측정하였으며 미세 조직의 특성을 파악하기 위하여 EBSD와 TEM을 이용하여 평가하였다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.03a
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• pp.144-144
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• 2003

니켈계 내열합금의 성형은 수백 $^{\circ}C$에 이르는 고온에서 이루어지기 때문에 열간성형 과정에서 소재 내부의 미세조직 변화에 대한 이해는 부품의 특성 제어 측면에서 매우 중요하다. 특히 열간 동적 재결정에 의해 발생되는 결정립 구조의 변화를 적절히 조절함으로써 부품의 특성을 극대화 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 Ni-Fe계 초내열합금에 대한 고온 압축실험과 압축시편에 대한 EBSD 분석을 통해 열간 변형 과정에서 발생하는 소재 내부의 동적인 결정립 구조의 변화를 정량적으로 분석하고자 하였다. 고온 압축시험은 101$0^{\circ}C$, 1066$^{\circ}C$의 온도 조건과 0.5s-1, 0.005s-1의 변형율 속도 조건에서 최대 진변형율 0.7까지 수행하였으며 진변형율에 따른 결정립 조직 변화를 관찰하기 위해 진변형 율에도 변화를 주어 실험을 수행하였다. 이들 고온 압축시편은 응력방향에 평행한 면에 대한 미세조직 관찰을 통해 재결정립 크기, 분율 및 결정립계의 특성 변화에 대한 정량적 연구를 수행하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.1087-1090
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• 2009

A unique process was developed to improve the mechanical properties of a circular tube. In this proposed process, a large amount of strain is applied to the wall of tube, leading to grain refinement in the material. In order to investigate characteristics of microstructural evolution such as the distribution of grain size and misorientation angle during the process, an EBSD OIM analysis was carried out. The analysis confirms that the proposed process can very effectively produce a circular tube with ultrafine-grains.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.143-146
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• 2001

The evolution of dynamic recrystallization (DRX) was studied with torsion test for AISI 304 stainless steel in the temperature range of $900-1000^{\circ}C$ and strain rate range of 0.05-5/sec. The evolution of DRX was investigated with microstructural analysis and change of flow stress curve slope. The investigation of serrated grain boundaries using electron back scattered diffraction (EBSD) analysis indicated that the nucleated new DRX grain size was similar to the size of bulging part. Before the steady state, the dynamically recrystallizing grains do not remain a constant size and gradually grow to the size of fully DRX grain at steady state. The calculation of grain size was based on $X_{DRX}$ and the assumption, which the nucleated DRX grains are growing to the steady state, continuously. It was found that the calculated results agreed with the microstructure of the alloy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.225-227
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• 2004

Recrystallization textures of ferritic stainless steel sheets of STS 430 were varied by means of different cold rolling procedures. The conventional normal rolling led to the evolution of strong through-thickness texture gradients in the final recrystallization texture, while the cross-rolling led to a decrease in texture gradients. Micro-texture observation by EBSD revealed that the formation of band-like orientation colonies formed close to the center layer was responsible for ridging. Modification of the recrystallization texture and microstructure by cross-rolling destroyed band-like orientation colonies and consequently reduced the ridging height.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.228-230
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• 2004

Samples of the aluminum alloy 3103 sheets were repeatedly deformed by ECAR up to twelve passes. Shear textures developed after the first passage of ECAR. However, the intensity of shear texture components decreased with increasing number of ECAR passages. Observations by TEM and EBSD revealed that the degree of misorientations within the deformed grains increased with increasing number of ECAR passes. Changes in textures and microstructures were hardly observed during recrystallization anneal. Upon subsequent annealing, the samples deformed by a large number of ECAR passes displayed a continuous grain growth. A higher deformation by ECAR resulted in a slower softening, which reflects the stability of ultra-fine grains against the grain growth.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.222-225
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• 2006

The effect of lubrication on the development of textures and Microstructure was studied by different lubricating condition during hot rolling of AA1050 aluminum alloy. Hot rolling without lubrication led to the evolution of the pronounced through-thickness texture gradients, whereas hot rolling with lubrication gave rise to the formation of uniform rolling texture in the whole thickness layer. The variation of texture and microstructure according to hot rolling condition are investigated by X-ray diffractometer (XRD) and Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction (EBSD). The experimental results were discussed base on the finite element method (FEM) simulation. FEM calculation reveals that a larger friction between roll and sheet causes the deviated strain state from a plane strain leading to the formation of shear textures in the thickness layers close to the surface.