%0 journal article %@ 1044-5803 %A Couchet, C.,Allain, J.,Geandier, G.,Teixeira, J.,Gaudez, S.,Macchi, J.,Lamari, M.,Bonnet, F. %D 2021 %J Materials Characterization %N %P 111378 %R doi:10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111378 %T Recovery of severely deformed ferrite studied by in situ high energy X-ray diffraction %U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111378 %X Recovery of severely deformed ferrite was followed in situ by High Energy X Ray Diffraction during heating and isothermal holding experiments. Dislocation densities during annealing were determined by a modified Williamson Hall method. The deduced recovery kinetics was compared to post-mortem hardness measurements. A temperature dependent saturation of recovery was exhibited during holding. Dislocation density drop and saturation behavior cannot be reproduced simultaneously by the classical physically based models.