A modified Monte-Carlo Potts model for dynamic recrystallization

摘要

In order to improve the microstructure evolution modeling of dynamic recrystallization (DRX) in agreement with physical experiment, a modified Monte-Carlo (MC) Potts model for simulating DRX process was proposed in this paper under the consideration of the inhomogeneous stored energy distribution related to grain sizes, the nucleation criteria related to critical dislocation density, the site energy change related to grain preferred-growth, the combination of macroscopic thermo-mechanical parameters and microscopic material parameters, and the relationship between MC calculation steps and real DRX time. The results show that the modified model can better simulate the basic characteristics of dynamic recrystallization of metallic materials during forging, which the recrystallized grains nucleate mainly in the deformed regions with high stored energy and preferentially grow up by merging adjacent deformed grains with high stored energy.