Natural gas has attracted increasing attention because it does not cause pollution and is low cost. Natural gas is usually transported or stored in cryogenic-temperature liquefied natural gas (LNG) applications such as pressure vessels and plumbing pipes. The essential requirements for the materials used for these applications are high strength and outstanding low-temperature toughness (Charpy impact toughness at À196 C). The traditional materials used for these applications are Ni-based invar alloys, 9Ni alloys, aluminum alloys, and austenitic steels. [1][2][3][4] Although these conventional cryogenic-temperature materials show excellent mechanical properties, they possess some disadvantages such as high cost, complex manufacturing process, and unstable service behavior. High-manganese austenitic steels have received increasing attention due to their promising potential for LNG applications. [5][6][7] High-manganese steels have high ductility, a combination of strength and toughness, low thermal expansion coefficient, and low cost. The main plastic deformation mechanisms are dislocation slip, mechanical twinning, and strain-induced phase transformation (such as twinning-induced plasticity and transformation-induced plasticity), which depends on stacking fault energy (SFE). [8][9][10][11][12] Scientific understanding of the recrystallization behavior (dynamic recrystallization [DRX] and static recrystallization [SRX]) is a prerequisite for material design and large-scale production in the industry.Recently, many studies have focused on the recrystallization behavior of microalloying high-manganese steels. [9,11,13] The study by Ezatpour et al. [9] on the effect of microalloying elements V and Nb on the DRX behavior of high-manganese steel shows that Nb-bearing steel exhibits high peak stress due to the fine initial grains and NbC precipitates. The dynamic recovery (DRV) is the main deformation mechanism during the work softening process. Gwon et al. [11] reported the hot deformation behavior of V microalloying high-manganese steel. The hot workability of high-manganese steel was decreased due to the addition of V. Finer grains in V microalloying high-manganese steel were obtained from rapid DRX kinetics. Llanos [13] proposed a model to predict the static-recrystallized grain size of high-manganese steel as a function of deformation conditions and alloy elements. The microstructure of high-manganese steel at room temperature is usually austenite. Many researchers have studied the recrystallization behavior of austenitic stainless steel. [14,15] The 304 austenitic stainless steel shows discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (DDRX) and continuous dynamic recrystallization (CDRX) for low and high strain rates, respectively. The strain rate plays an important role in flow stress and the substructure. The studies focusing on the hot deformation behavior or recrystallization behavior of low-alloy steels show that the recrystallization kinetics and model are related to specific materials.