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Abstract: A novel synchrotron-based technique “high angular resolution 3DXRD” is presented in detail, and applied to the characterization of oxygen-free, high-conductivity copper at a tensile deformation of 2%. The position and shape in reciprocal space of 14 peaks originating from deeply embedded individual subgrains is reported. From this dataset the density of redundant dislocations in the individual subgrains is inferred to be below 12×1012 m−2 on average. It is found that the subgrains on average experience a reduction in strain of 0.9×10−4 with respect to the mean elastic strain of the full grain, a rather wide distribution of the strain difference between the subgrains (twice the standard deviation is 2.9×10−4), and a narrow internal strain distribution (upper limit is 2.4×10−4 full width at half maximum). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Nucleation of recrystallization is studied in situ in the bulk by three-dimensional X-ray diffraction. Copper samples cold rolled 20% are investigated. The crystallographic orientations near triple junction lines are characterized before, during and after annealing. Three nuclei are identified and it is shown that two nuclei are twin related to their parent grain and one nucleus has an orientation, which is neither present in the deformed parent grains nor first order twin related to any of them. Data on the nucleation kinetics is also presented. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]