Grain boundary migration in polycrystals

GS Rohrer, I Chesser, AR Krause… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials migrate to reduce the total excess energy. It
has recently been found that the factors governing migration rates of boundaries in bicrystals …

Extreme abnormal grain growth: connecting mechanisms to microstructural outcomes

CE Krill III, EA Holm, JM Dake, R Cohn… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
If variety is the spice of life, then abnormal grain growth (AGG) may be the materials
processing equivalent of sriracha sauce. Abnormally growing grains can be prismatic …

Energy dissipation by grain boundary replacement during grain growth

Z Xu, CM Hefferan, SF Li, J Lind, RM Suter… - Scripta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The changes in both the grain boundary area and grain boundary energy that occur during
grain growth have been measured in polycrystalline Ni using high energy diffraction …

Examination of computed aluminum grain boundary structures and energies that span the 5D space of crystallographic character

ER Homer, GLW Hart, CB Owens, DM Hensley… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The space of possible grain boundary structures is vast, with 5 macroscopic, crystallographic
degrees of freedom that define the character of a grain boundary. While numerous datasets …

[HTML][HTML] Grain boundary migration in polycrystalline α-Fe

Z Xu, YF Shen, SK Naghibzadeh, X Peng… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
High energy x-ray diffraction microscopy was used to image the microstructure of α-Fe
before and after a 600° C anneal. These data were used to determine the areas, curvatures …

Dynamic behavior of grain boundaries with misorientations in the vicinity of Σ3 coherent and incoherent twin boundaries in Al bicrystals

JE Brandenburg, LA Barrales-Mora, S Tsurekawa… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The migration behaviour of different grain boundaries with misorientations close to the Σ3
CSL orientation relationship in high purity Al bicrystals under the capillary driving force and …

Kinetics of grain boundary migration in nanosized Al polycrystals

GB Bizana, LA Barrales-Mora - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Classical theories of grain growth assume that grain boundary curvature and velocity are
linearly correlated. However, recent experimental observations seem to imply that the …

Phase-field model for anisotropic grain growth

P Staublin, A Mukherjee, JA Warren, PW Voorhees - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Grain boundary properties may depend on the five macroscopic crystallographic degrees of
freedom of the boundary, these being the misorientation between crystals and the inclination …

[HTML][HTML] New phase-field model for polycrystalline systems with anisotropic grain boundary properties

N Moelans - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new methodology is presented to inlude anisotropic grain boundary
properties in a phase-field model. The new approach is thermodynamically consistent and …

Oxidation-induced recrystallization and damage mechanism of a Ni-based single-crystal superalloy during creep

Q Xiao, Y Xu, X Liu, Y Wang, W Zhang - Materials Characterization, 2023 - Elsevier
The creep tests for Ni-based single-crystal superalloy are carried out under 980° C, and the
microstructure at the crack tip is characterized at micro-and nano-scales. Numerous γ'phase …