Related papers: Decomposition of general grain boundaries
For potentially wider applications of ceramics with dislocation-tuned mechanical and functional properties, it is pertinent to achieve dislocation engineering in polycrystalline ceramics. However, grain boundaries (GBs) in general are…
Atomic diffusion affects the properties of various engineering materials, which predominantly occur in the polycrystalline state. A rigorous description of polycrystalline diffusion must therefore account for crystallographic defects,…
Based on a model of the melting of Grain Boundary (GB), we discuss the possibility of the existence of superheated GB state. A Molecular Dynamics simulation presented here shows that the superheated GB state can realized in the high…
The uniaxial tensile test response of a H decorated $\Sigma$ 5 [100] twist grain boundary (GB) in face-centered-cubic Al has been examined with first principles. The impurity shows a strong tendency to relocate during loading. To capture…
The topological transitions that occur to the grain boundary network during grain growth in a material with uniform grain boundary energies are believed to be known. The same is not true for more realistic materials, since more general…
Tailoring microstructures represents a daunting goal in materials science. Here, an innovative proposition is to utilize grain boundary (GB) complexions (a.k.a. interfacial phases) to manipulate microstructural evolution, which is…
Grain boundary plane distributions are widely used to infer the mechanisms governing grain boundary formation in polycrystalline materials. We show that such interpretations are inherently ambiguous. Using a unified eight-parameter boundary…
Recent grain growth experiments have revealed that the same type of grain boundary can have very different mobilities depending on its local microstructure. In this work, we use molecular dynamics simulations to quantify uncertainty in the…
Many systems where a liquid metal is in contact with a polycrystalline solid exhibit deep liquid grooves where the grain boundary meets the solid-liquid interface. For example, liquid Ga quickly penetrates deep into grain boundaries in Al,…
Grain boundary (GB) segregation of solute atoms plays an important role in the microstructure and macroscopic mechanical properties of materials. The study of GB segregation of solute atoms using computational simulation has become one of…
We show that molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are capable of reproducing the drag of solute segregation atmospheres by moving grain boundaries (GBs). Although lattice diffusion is frozen out on the MD timescale, the accelerated GB…
We study the interfacial thermal conductance of grain boundaries (GBs) between monolayer graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) sheets using a combined atomistic approach. First, realistic samples containing graphene/h-BN GBs with…
We investigate the phenomenon of grokking -- delayed generalization accompanied by non-monotonic test loss behavior -- in a simple binary logistic classification task, for which "memorizing" and "generalizing" solutions can be strictly…
We have analysed the influence of the microstructural features, such as intergranular grain boundary (GB) phases and misalignment of the hard magnetic grains, on the optimization of magnetization reversal processes in order to improve the…
Dynamic recrystallization is one of the main phenomena responsible for microstructure evolutions during hot forming. Consequently, getting a better understanding of DRX mechanisms and being able to predict them is crucial. This paper…
We study the mechanisms of slip transfer at a grain boundary, in titanium, using Differential Aperture X-ray Laue Micro-diffraction (DAXM). This 3D characterization tool enables measurement of the full (9-component) Nye lattice curvature…
Grain boundary migration governs microstructural evolution in crystalline materials, directly influencing mechanical properties such as strength and thermal stability. Disconnections, which are line defects formed at grain boundaries in…
The role that grain boundary (GB) structure plays on the plasticity of interfaces with preexisting cracks and on the interface crack dynamics was investigated using MD for both <100> and <110> aluminum STGBs. In simulations with a crack at…
Austenitic 347H stainless steel offers superior mechanical properties and corrosion resistance required for extreme operating conditions such as high temperature. The change in microstructure due to composition and process variations is…
Cohesive laws are stress-strain curves used in finite element calculations to describe the debonding of interfaces such as grain boundaries. It would be convenient to describe grain boundary cohesive laws as a function of the parameters…