Quantitative Analysis of the
Misorientation Distribution After the
Recrystallisation of Tensile Deformed
Copper Single Crystals
F. Haessner,1K. Sztwiertnia,1and P.-J. Wilbrandt2
Received10 Jul 1990
Abstract
Recrystallisation experiments in tensile deformed 〈100〉- and 〈111〉-oriented single crystals of high
purity copper yielded very accurate information about the orientations of recrystallised grains and
deformation microstructure. For a statistical evaluation of the orientation relationships between the
dominant recrystallised grains and the deformation microstructure the misorientation distribution
function was calculated. The most frequently occurring orientation relationships can be described by
coincidence relationships. Always several coincidence relationships are needed to characterise the
results. The specimen treatment strongly influences the occurrence of the individual coincidence
orientation relationships. A particularly preferred growth of grains with a 30° or 40° 〈111〉 orientation
relationship was not observed.