Deformation characteristics important for nucleation process. Case of low-carbon steel

It is well known that the energy stored during plastic deformation is a dri ving force in the recrystallization process. The goal of the present work i s to find the best parameter (among a few ones predicted by deformation mod els) controlling the kinetics of recrystallization process, hence playing a role of the stored energy. The recrystallization was studied in the frame of a Monte Carlo model; the stored energy land its orientation distribution ) is an input data. Finally, it was found that the best parameters are: the average dislocation density and the total plastic work. Roughly, they have similar distributio ns in function of orientation and they predict practically the same recryst allization textures.