Grain Boundaries From Theory to Engineering /

• Main Author: Priester, Louisette (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 172
• Subjects: Materials science.; Physical chemistry.; Crystallography.; Nanotechnology.; Metals.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Materials Science.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Physical Chemistry.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.; Metallic Materials.

Grain boundaries are a main feature of crystalline materials. They play a key role in determining the properties of materials, especially when grain size decreases and even more so with the current improvements of  processing tools and methods that allow us to control various elements in a polycryst...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Part 1: From intergranular order to disorder
• Introduction: brief history of the intergranular order concept
• Geometrical order
• Mechanical stress order
• Atomic order
• Order or disorder at high temperature
• Grain boundary order and energy
• Grain boundary order or disorder: what conclusion?
• Part 2: From the ideal grain boundary to the real grain boundary
• Defects in the grain boundary structure
• Intergranular segregation
• Precipitation at grain boundaries
• Interactions between dislocations and grain boundaries
• Relaxation of the intergranular stresses
• Part 3: From the free grain boundary to the constrained grain boundary
• The triple junction
• Grain boundary network - grain boundary texture.