Kim Dae Woo
Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology (GIFT)
Pohang University of Science and Technology
Pohang, Kyoungbuk, Republic of Korea
Added to MAP: September 2008.
The allotriomorphic ferrite nucleates heterogeneously at austenite grain boundaries, and although a reproducible, low-energy orientation relationship is expected to exist between the ferrite and one of the austenite grains with which it is in contact, there are reports that the ferrite can simultaneously adopt this orientation with more than one austenite grain. We examine this possibility using crystallographic theory in order to assess the probability of such events as a function of the strength of the texture within the austenite prior to its transformation.
Language: | Fortran 77 |
Product form: | Source code and executable files for UNIX/Linux machines. |
Complete program.
Austenite grains are conveniently represented as a stack of identical, space.filling Kelvin tetrakaidecahedra each of which consists of eight hexagonal and six square faces, with 36 equal edges. For ferrite nucleation at austenite grain surfaces, there are therefore 14 face-sites per grain.
The computer algorithm was constructed so that for each grain orientation relative to the sample frame of reference, it was possible to access the orientations of the fourteen neighbouring grains. A total of 1700 austenite grains was created in this way, with one of the grains having its crystallographic axes exactly parallel to those of the sample. The relationship between the sample and austenite crystal axes can be described using Euler angles. These are the three angles by which the sample reference frame must be rotated in order to coincide with that of the crystal.Non.random austenite textures were generated relative to the sample axes by setting the first austenite grain to the exact required texture, and then choosing relative to this grain, random rotation axes but with the right.handed rotation angle limited to the range of 4 to 45 degree.
Any grain of ferrite will always have an orientation relationship (a_J_r) with an austenite grain 1. However, some ferrite grains will have a special orientation relationship which corresponds to a low energy configuration. We adopt as the low energy orientation, one predicted by the crystallographic theory of martensite in order to ensure a coherent line between a and r
0.579356 | 0.542586 | 0.102537 |
0.014470 | 0.133650 | -0.788984 |
-0.552000 | 0.0572979 | 0.086936 |
and when ferrite was allowed to form on a face between two austenite grains with relative orientation (r1_J_r2, the corresponding orientations with the ferrite are (r1_J_a) and (r2_JLE_a)where the latter is the low energy variant. It follows that
(r1_J_a) = (r1_J_r2)(r2_JLE_a)
Both the matrices on the right.hand side of this equation are known because the austenite orientations are set initially and (r 2_JLE_a) is given by previous table. Ferrite was allowed to nucleate on all 14 faces of each austenite grain. The ferrite in all cases had a low energy orientation with one austenite grain; since there are 24 crystallographically equivalent such orientations for any given austenite grain, the selection of the particular variant was made at random from the 24 available.
The name of source code is as follows :
allotriomorh.f
This is a source code of this program. For the execution, it needs to be compiled.
compile example :
g77 allotriomorp.f -o name.out
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full euler space or 45 section?
1. FULL EULER SPACE
2. 45 degree section
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ex)100,110,111
Texture, Allotriomorphic ferrite, Dual orientation, Crystallography
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