Grain-boundary kinetics: A unified approach

J Han, SL Thomas, DJ Srolovitz - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Grain boundaries (GBs) are central defects for describing polycrystalline materials, and
playing major role in a wide-range of physical properties of polycrystals. Control over GB …

[HTML][HTML] A classical equation that accounts for observations of non-Arrhenius and cryogenic grain boundary migration

ER Homer, OK Johnson, D Britton… - npj Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
Observations of microstructural coarsening at cryogenic temperatures, as well as numerous
simulations of grain boundary motion that show faster migration at low temperature than at …

[HTML][HTML] Toward the multiscale nature of stress corrosion cracking

X Liu, W Hwang, J Park, D Van, Y Chang… - Nuclear Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
This article reviews the multiscale nature of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) observed by
high-resolution characterizations in austenite stainless steels and Ni-base superalloys in …

[HTML][HTML] Initial grain orientation controls static recrystallization outcomes in cold-worked iron: Insight from coupled crystal plasticity/vertex dynamics modeling

C McElfresh, J Marian - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Recrystallization of metallic materials is an important metallurgical treatment to bring cold-
worked alloys to a usable state. Static recrystallization (SRX) occurs after deformation, once …

Atomistic migration mechanisms of atomically flat, stepped, and kinked grain boundaries

R Hadian, B Grabowski, CP Race, J Neugebauer - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We studied the migration behavior of mixed tilt and twist grain boundaries in the vicinity of a
symmetric tilt〈 111〉 Σ 7 grain boundary in aluminum. We show that these grain boundaries …

Magnetic bond-order potential for iron-cobalt alloys

A Egorov, APA Subramanyam, Z Yuan, R Drautz… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
For large-scale atomistic simulations of magnetic materials, the interplay of atomic and
magnetic degrees of freedom needs to be described with high computational efficiency …

Stochastic model and kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of solute interactions with stationary and moving grain boundaries. II. Application to two-dimensional systems

Y Mishin - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
In Part I of this work, we proposed a stochastic model describing solute interactions with
stationary and moving grain boundaries (GBs) and applied it to planar GBs in 1D systems …

[HTML][HTML] The role of grain boundary diffusion in the solute drag effect

RK Koju, Y Mishin - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are applied to study solute drag by curvature-driven
grain boundaries (GBs) in Cu–Ag solid solution. Although lattice diffusion is frozen on the …

Understanding the anomalous thermal behavior of Σ3 grain boundaries in a variety of FCC metals

I Chesser, E Holm - Scripta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a case study of the complex temperature dependence of grain boundary
mobility. The same general incoherent twin boundary in different FCC metals is found to …

Contrasting thermal behaviors in Σ3 grain boundary motion in nickel

J Humberson, I Chesser, EA Holm - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Synthetic driving force molecular dynamics simulations were utilized to survey grain
boundary mobility in three classes of incoherent Σ3 twin boundaries:< 112>,< 110>, and< …