Recrystallization and grain growth in Ni₃Al with and without boron

The recrystallization and grain growth of boron-free and boron-doped (500 ppm by weight) Ni₃Al polycrystals were investigated in the temperature range 700-1000°C. The levels of deformation were 17% reduction in length in compression for both alloys and 40% rolling reduction applied only to the boron-doped alloy. For alloys with or without boron, the Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami relationship holds, with the Avrami exponent near unity, and the recrystallization rate is very slow. The activation energies for recrystallization are respectively 480 and 492 kJ/mol for boron-free and boron-doped to 40%. The grain growth kinetics obey a power law with the time exponent ranging from 0·2 to 0·4. The boron effect at 500 ppm was found to be small on both recrystallization and grain growth in Ni₃Al. © 1993.