A 3-D Monte-Carlo (Potts) model for recrystallization and grain growth in polycrystalline materials

The evolution of microstructure during annealing of deformed polycrystalline metallic materials was modeled using a 3-D Monte-Carlo (Potts) approach in which the initial microstructure, texture (ODF), spatial distribution of the stored energy of deformation, and nucleation mechanism were carefully quantified. The modeling technique was tested using several special cases of 3-D stored-energy distributions and different textures of the as-deformed state.