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This paper investigates the statistical behavior of two-dimensional grain microstructures during grain growth under anisotropic grain boundary characters. We employ the threshold-dynamics method, which allows for unparalleled computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-19 Jaekwang Kim , Nikhil Chandra Admal

Predicting the alignment of non-spherical particles in dense granular flows under shear remains a central challenge in soft matter physics. We demonstrate that the first-order behavior of granular fabric,the anisotropic distribution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-28 Christopher Harper , Eric C. P. Breard , George W. Bergantz , PJ Zrelak

In this work we derive conditions that predict the existence of two-phase periodic-pattern grain boundary structures that are stable against coarsening. While previous research has established that elastic effects can lead to phase pattern…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-14 Ian S. Winter , Timofey Frolov

Grain boundary (GB) migration is a pivotal process that significantly impacts the development of microstructures, thereby influencing the practical performance of polycrystalline materials. Recent advances in 3D experimental techniques have…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Jianfeng Hu

Automated detection of grain boundaries (GBs) in electron microscope images of polycrystalline materials could help accelerate the nanoscale characterization of myriad engineering materials and novel materials under scientific research.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Doruk Aksoy , Huolin L. Xin , Timothy J. Rupert , William J. Bowman

Many technologically useful materials are polycrystals composed of a myriad of small monocrystalline grains separated by grain boundaries. Dynamics of grain boundaries play a crucial role in determining the grain structure and defining the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-07 Katayun Barmak , Anastasia Dunca , Yekaterina Epshteyn , Chun Liu , Masashi Mizuno

We present the results of first-principles calculations of selected structural and thermodynamic properties of a set of grain boundaries (GBs) in zirconium, spanning a range of misorientation angles and boundary planes. We performed…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-14 Adam J Plowman , Christopher P Race

Grain structure plays a key role in the mechanical properties of alloy materials. Engineering the grain structure requires a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of grain boundaries (GBs) when a material is subjected to various…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-26 Junyan He , Nikhil Chandra Admal

In this paper, we develop a mean-field model for simulating the microstructure evolution of crystalline materials during static recrystallization. The model considers a population of individual cells (i.e. grains and subgrains) growing in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-18 Arthur Després , Michael Greenwood , Chad Sinclair

Coarse graining enables the investigation of molecular dynamics for larger systems and at longer timescales than is possible at atomic resolution. However, a coarse graining model must be formulated such that the conclusions we draw from it…

A continuum dislocation model of formation of grains whose boundaries have a non-vanishing thickness is proposed. For a single crystal deforming in simple shear the lamellar structure of grains with thin layers containing dislocations as…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Michael Koster , Khanh Chau Le

A novel continuum theory of incoherent interfaces with triple junctions is applied to study three-dimensional coupled grain boundary (GB) motion in polycrystalline materials. The kinetic relations for grain dynamics, relative sliding and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-08 Anup Basak , Anurag Gupta

Obtaining microscopic structure-property relationships for grain boundaries are challenging because of the complex atomic structures that underlie their behavior. This has led to recent efforts to obtain these relationships with machine…

The study of grain boundary phase transitions is an emerging field until recently dominated by experiments. The major bottleneck in exploration of this phenomenon with atomistic modeling has been the lack of a robust computational tool that…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-21 Qiang Zhu , Amit Samanta , Bingxi Li , Robert E. Rudd , Timofey Frolov

In this study, we present a methodology to predict the macroscopic yield surface of metals and metallic alloys with general crystallographic textures. In previous work, we have established the use of partially input convex neural networks…

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-08 Yi Guo , David M. Collins , Edmund Tarleton , Felix Hofmann , Angus J. Wilkinson , T. Ben Britton

A continuum grain boundary model is developed that uses experimentally measured grain boundary energy data as a function of misorientation to simulate idealized grain boundary evolution in a 1-D grain array. The model uses a continuum…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-29 Syed Ansari , Amit Acharya , Alankar Alankar

The description of distributions related to grain microstructure helps physicists to understand the processes in materials and their properties. This paper presents a general statistical methodology for the analysis of crystallographic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-22 I. Karafiátová , J. Møller , Z. Pawlas , J. Staněk , F. Seitl , V. Beneš

The geometric state of a flat boundary is frequently described using the so-called macroscopic parameters. They are a principal tool for dealing with interfaces at the continuous scale. The paper describes a new method for macroscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-04 Adam Morawiec

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,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Lena Scholz , Yongliang Ou , Blazej Grabowski , Felix Fritzen