“…2,6) However, as pointed by Feltham and Meakin 14) and/or Rösler and Artz, 15) the physical meanings of the stress exponents, n and n 0 , and the apparent activation energies, Q and Q 0 , have not yet been clear. Moreover, though the some metallurgical explanations 16,17) were made concerning with the internal stresses, in general, the internal stress has not yet been correlated with microstructural parameters quantitatively.…”