Interfacial segregation and grain boundary embrittlement: An overview and critical assessment of experimental data and calculated results

P Lejček, M Šob, V Paidar - Progress in Materials Science, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the most dangerous technical failures of materials is intergranular brittle fracture
(temper embrittlement) as it proceeds very quickly and its appearance is often hardly …

Defect-characterized phase transition kinetics

X Zhang, J Zhang, H Wang, J Rogal, HY Li… - Applied physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Phase transitions are a common phenomenon in condensed matter and act as a critical
degree of freedom that can be employed to tailor the mechanical or electronic properties of …

Segregation engineering of grain boundaries of a metastable Fe-Mn-Co-Cr-Si high entropy alloy with laser-powder bed fusion additive manufacturing

S Thapliyal, P Agrawal, P Agrawal, SS Nene… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Laser-powder bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing offers unprecedented
microstructural fine-tuning capabilities. Naturally, benefitting from such capability requires …

Research Update: The materials genome initiative: Data sharing and the impact of collaborative ab initio databases

A Jain, KA Persson, G Ceder - APL Materials, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Materials innovations enable new technological capabilities and drive major societal
advancements but have historically required long and costly development cycles. The …

The influence of alloying on Zn liquid metal embrittlement in steels

D Scheiber, K Prabitz, L Romaner, W Ecker - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study we investigate Zn liquid metal embrittlement at Fe grain boundaries (GBs) by
employing ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations. We consider three different …

A review of liquid metal embrittlement: cracking open the disparate mechanisms

JE Norkett, MD Dickey, VM Miller - Metallurgical and Materials …, 2021 - Springer
Liquid metal embrittlement (LME) is the term for a collection of phenomena by which the
action of a liquid metal in contact with the surface of a solid metal results in the weakening …

The vibrational entropy spectra of grain boundary segregation in polycrystals

N Tuchinda, CA Schuh - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The vibrational contributions to the energetics of grain boundary segregation are calculated
for binary Ni polycrystals with solutes of Pd, Pt, Ag, Au and Cu. The computational challenge …

Correlation between stabilizing and strengthening effects due to grain boundary segregation in iron-based alloys: Theoretical models and first-principles calculations

HR Peng, WT Huo, W Zhang, Y Tang, S Zhang… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Grain boundary (GB) segregation can drastically affect both the thermal stability and fracture
strength of nanocrystalline metals. Underlying physics of the correlation between the above …

Solute effects on the Σ3 111 [11-0] tilt grain boundary in BCC Fe: Grain boundary segregation, stability, and embrittlement

YJ Hu, Y Wang, WY Wang, KA Darling… - Computational Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Solute segregation can profoundly affect the thermodynamic stability and cohesive
properties of the grain boundaries (GBs) in Fe-based alloys. In the present work, first …

Corrosion mechanism of lead-bismuth eutectic at grain boundary in ferritic steels and the effect of alloying elements: A first-principles study

T Liu, J Hui, B Zhang, X He, M Liu, J Qiu… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study first-principles calculations are used to investigate the corrosion mechanism of
liquid metal embrittlement (LME) by lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) at grain boundary (GB) in …