Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2011
We present the recent extensions of our stochastic microstructure evolution model including multiphase domain evolution and dislocation plasticity. The model was implemented by means of numerical simulations based on the velocity Monte Carlo algorithm. It describes the evolution of a two-dimensional microstructure by tracking the motion of triple junctions, i.e., the vertices where three grain boundaries (GBs) meet. GBs can be modeled as straight, curved, or discretized segments; the misorientation dependence of both grain-boundary energies and mobilities can be included to represent different textures.