“…This technique has been widely used in titanium alloys in order to obtain a lamellar microstructure with a relatively smaller beta phase grain size, required for a balanced combination of tensile, fatigue, and creep properties. 9) However, the parameters of the RHT process must be carefully controlled so as to prevent excessive grain growth. Therefore, an understanding of the recrystallization and grain growth kinet-Noriaki HIROTA, 1) Fuxing YIN, 2) Tadanobu INOUE 2) and Tsukasa AZUMA 1) 1) Muroran Research Laboratory, The Japan Steel Works, Ltd., 4 Chatsumachi, Muroran, Hokkaido 051-8505 Japan.…”