Abstract
Changes in microstructures at recovery stage after cold-rolling at 50% reduction rate were observed in an Al-Mg-Si alloy by means of SEM-EBSD system. The same area in the specimen was observed before and after cold-rolling. Intermittent annealing at 673 K, Ar ion-polishing, and EBSD observation were repeated up to the annealing time of 3.6 ks. Dislocation cells formed by cold-rolling changed into subgrains with annealing. Low and high angle boundaries were formed with surrounding the subgrains depending on misorientations between the neighboring subgrains. The high angle boundaries migrated to form recovered microstructures. Original orientation of the dislocation cell was maintained in the recovered microstructure. Some of the recovered microstructures grew with invading others. Therefore, new discrete poles did not appear in a discrete pole figure during annealing but those in the invaded subgrains disappear, which made the pole figure of the annealed specimen different from that of the cold-rolled specimen. Secondary recovered microstructures were observed to be formed with invading primary formed recovered microstructures. The recovered microstructures were finally invaded by recrystallized grains to disappear. In a region where growth of recrystallized grains was delayed, coarse recovered microstructures composed of large subgrains were formed.
