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Microstructural control is a key aspect in producing ceramics with tailored properties and is often achieved by using dopants in a rather empirical fashion. Atomic scale simulations could provide much needed insight but the long-standing challenge of linki ...
Nowadays the orientation maps of polycrystalline material are necessary for a better understanding of, for example, the formation of voids in the interconnects of modern electronic devices. As new generation of devices has dramatically reduced in size, new ...
Recrystallization, which can occur dynamically or statically, is an important phenomenon causing microstructure changes in deformed metals and therefore affecting the properties of the material. Even though extensive investigations have been carried out on ...
Intergranular penetration of liquid 18 K gold into a superaustenitic stainless steel, which occurs during laser welding of these two materials, has been studied using a C-ring device which can be put under tensile stresses by a screw. It is shown that liqu ...
The interactions between 60 degrees dislocation pile-ups with grain boundaries (GBs) are studied using multiscale modeling. Careful quantitative analyses of complex processes associated with 60 degrees dislocation absorption and transmission phenomena at S ...
An argon gas atomized, pre-alloyed Fe-14Cr-2W-0.3Ti (wt.%) reduced activation ferritic (RAF) steel powder was mechanically alloyed with 0.3wt.% Y2O3 nano-particles in an attritor ball mill and consolidated by hot isostatic pressing at 1150 °C under a press ...
The paper describes a new model of discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (DDRX) which can operate in constant or variable thermomechanical conditions. The model considers the elementary physical phenomena at the grain scale such as strain hardening, reco ...
Coupled grain boundary motion was simulated in a three-dimensional nanocrystalline Al grain boundary network using molecular dynamics. It is shown that, in spite of the triple junction constraints, a symmetrical Sigma 75 tilt boundary can migrate during th ...
Oxygen permeability measurements of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δ (BSCF) disk shaped membranes fabricated by thermoplastic processing and sintered at different temperatures (1000–1100 °C), showed no influence of the grain size on the oxygen permeation fluxes. T ...
The microstructural evolution of deformed 304L stainless steel during static recrystallization and grain growth was characterized by EBSD within an SEM chamber, which enabled microstructural and crystallographic information to be determined. The experiment ...
