Selected, peer reviewed papers from the Fourth International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, July 4-9, 2010, Sheffield, UK

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 5th International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth (ReX&GG V), May 5-10, 2013, Sydney, Australia

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). Recrystallization and grain growth, together with phase transformations such as precipitation, are the fundamental processes of microstructural evolution which take place during the thermomechanical processing of engineering materials. They are of major scientific interest and are of great importance in a wide range of industrial applications. One of the main goals of this two-volume set is to show how to cover the entire set of reactions governing recrystallization and grain growth during industrial processing – termed through process modelling.

Recrystallization and grain-growth, together with phase transformations, are the fundamental processes of microstructural evolution which occur during the thermomechanical treatment of engineering materials. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).

This book summarizes the found insights of grain growth behavior, of multidimensional decomposition for regular grids to efficiently parallelize computing and how to simulate recrystallization by coupling the finite element method with the phase-field method for microstructure texture analysis. The frame of the book is created by the phase-field method, which is the tool used in this work, to investigate microstructure phenomena.