Abstract. Effect of high magnetic field annealing on recrystallization behavior of cold rolled H70 brass was investigated. Specimens were annealed with and without a 12T magnetic field at different temperatures, respectively. The results showed that the recrystallization fraction of field-annealed specimen is lower than that of the non-field annealed specimen, while the percentage of ∑3 grain boundaries is higher than that of the non-field annealed specimen. The analysis results indicate that the high magnetic field hinders the recryatallization of cold rolled H70 brass, but promotes the formation of ∑3 grain boundaries. This may attributed to the formation of large number of asymmetric grain boundaries under the high magnetic field decreases the grain boundary migration process which leads to the slower of recrystallization process and makes the special grain boundary have more chance to grow up under the magnetic field.
IntroductionIn recent years, the electromagnetic processing technology has been widely used in the solid phase transformation of materials. Researchers have paid many attentions to reveal the relationship between high magnetic field and the recrystallization behavior of the deformation alloys. Most researches in this field are related to magnetically affected recrystallization in ferromagnetic materials [1][2][3]. With the development of high magnetic field technologies, researchers found that non-ferromagnetic metals which almost have no reaction in the conventional magnetic field heat treatment are also quite sensitive under the high magnetic field. In 2003~2010, Molodov and his collaborators [4-9] explored the magnetically affected recrystallization and grain growth in non-ferromagnetic metals, and the results showed that the magnetic annealing can substantially affect the texture and grain structure evolution during recrystallization and grain growth in magnetically aluminum, zinc, titanium and zirconium. In 2008, Sheikh-Ali and his coworkers [10] found that the microhardness of diamagnetic pure copper, after the high magnetic field heat treatment, was higher than the specimen annealed without the magnetic field, they attribute it to the prevention of high magnetic field on the reduction of dislocation density in the specimens. In 2015, He et al [11][12] studied the effect of high magnetic field annealing on the recrystallization texture evolution in cold-rolled pure copper, and they found that the magnetic field annealing promotes the formation of the recrystalliation Cube texture in cold-rolled pure copper sheets. These researches have progressed the understanding of the high magnetic field mechanism on recrystallization in non-ferromagnetic metals. However, till now minimal work has been conducted to study the grain boundary character in non-ferromagnetic metals under the high