Effect of Deformation and Heat-treatment on Deformation-induced Defects in Iron

The pure iron was cold rolled with the thickness reduction from 0% to 75%. The microstructure defects, crystallographic structure and morphology of deformed specimens were characterized by positron annihilation technique (PAT), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The XRD results show that the intensity of (200) increased with increasing deformation, 673 K heat-treatment promote the preference of (200) and the grain size of (200) was increased. The PAT results show that the vacancy type defect was annihilated at 673 K and the dislocation type defects start to annihilate at 723 K.