Grain boundary segregation and fracture
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R. G. Faulkner
Abstract
This paper describes a combined thermodynamic and micro-mechanical model for the propagation of a grain boundary crack through a solid in which stress concentrations ahead of the crack and plastic deformation around the crack tip are considered. It is shown that critical factors are impurity segregation concentration, grain boundary structure, reflected in the Σ value of the boundary, and temperature. Comparisons of the model predictions are made with other models of grain boundary binding by Sutton. Additionally, the model predictions are compared with several experimental observations of grain boundary fracture strength. It is shown that ductile to brittle transition temperature data for steels are a valuable source of experimental grain boundary fracture information for this important range of commercial materials.
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Articles Basic
- Thermodynamics of grain boundary adsorption in binary systems with limited solubility
- Microstructural characteristics of 3-d networks
- On the three-dimensional twin-limited microstructure
- Grain growth kinetics in 2D polycrystals: impact of triple junctions
- Thermal stability of polycrystalline nanowires
- Conservative motion of parent-martensite interfaces
- Enthalpy – entropy compensation effect in grain boundary phenomena
- Thermodynamic stabilization of nanocrystallinity
- On the relation between the anisotropies of grain boundary segregation and grain boundary energy
- Influence of faceting-roughening on triple-junction migration in zinc
- The influence of triple junction kinetics on the evolution of polycrystalline materials during normal grain growth: New evidence from in-situ experiments using columnar Al foil
- Grain boundary dynamics and selective grain growth in non-ferromagnetic metals in high magnetic fields
- Grain boundary mobility under a stored-energy driving force: a comparison to curvature-driven boundary migration
- Diffusional behavior of nanoscale lead inclusions in crystalline aluminum
- Quantitative experiments on the transition between linear to non-linear segregation of Ag in Cu bicrystals studied by radiotracer grain boundary diffusion
- Room-temperature grain boundary diffusion data measured from historical artifacts
- Solid state infiltration of porous steel with aluminium by the forcefill process
- A mechanism of plane matching boundary-assisted α/γ phase transformation in Fe–Cr alloy based on in-situ observations
- Fast penetration of Ga in Al: liquid metal embrittlement near the threshold of grain boundary wetting
- High-pressure effect on grain boundary wetting in aluminium bicrystals
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