An EBSD investigation of cryogenically-rolled Cu-30%Zn brass

Konkova, T. and Mironov, S. and Korznikov, A. and Korznikova, G. and Myshlyaev, M.M. and Semiatin, S.L. (2015) An EBSD investigation of cryogenically-rolled Cu-30%Zn brass. Materials Characterization, 101. pp. 173-179. ISSN 1044-5803 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2015.02.004)

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Abstract

Electron backscatter diffraction was used to study grain structure development in heavily cryogenically-rolled Cu-30%Zn brass. The produced microstructure was found to be very inhomogeneous. At a relatively coarse scale, it consisted of texture bands having crystallographic orientations close to the α- and γ-fibers. The texture bands contained internal structure comprising shear bands, mechanical twins, and low-angle boundaries. Such features were more pronounced within the γ-fiber, and this resulted in a heterogeneous ultrafine grain structure. The cryogenic rolling was concluded to be not straightforward for production of nanocrystalline grain structure in Cu-30%Zn brass.