Cold-worked metal stores ~10 percent of plastic-work as defects; on annealing, recovery (point-defect annihilation) then recrystallization (new strain-free grains) then grain-growth (grain-boundary curvature reduction).
Cold-worked metal stores ~10 percent of plastic-work as defects; on annealing, recovery (point-defect annihilation) then recrystallization (new strain-free grains) then grain-growth (grain-boundary curvature reduction).