Recrystallization : the Actual Topics with Particular Focus on the Investigation of Transformation Kinetics

Abstract
An attempt will be made to give an overview of the main areas of actual interest with respect to recent progress and to future prospects in the respective fields. In this connection the following areas are treated : The kind of material and the initial thermodynamical unstable state ; the basic processes during heating up of a sample : recovery, nucleation, grain boundary migration ; the end product, which is the result of an interaction of the basic processes. From these different areas attention is turned to the topic of "kinetics", focussing particularly on what we can learn about recrystallization- and recovery-kinetics in metals as a result of modern calorimetric investigation.