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Trends in Grain Boundary Mobility: Survey of Motion Mechanisms

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Grain boundary (GB) motion in polycrystalline materials is expected and observed to be dominated by thermally activated processes. This has important implications for properties influenced by the presence of GBs. Here, the GB motions of a catalog of 388 simulated nickel boundaries reveal a rich set of behaviors, which demonstrate that the temperature dependencies of GB mobility are far more complex than originally believed. In the set of 388 boundaries, four different general classes were observed with the following percentages: (I) ~57% exhibited traditional thermally activated mobility; (II) ~20% exhibited non-thermally activated mobility, where mobility was either independent of temperature or mobility decreased with increasing temperature (i.e., not thermally activated); (III) ~14% exhibited mixed modes of mobility, where different trends were exhibited over different temperature regimes (e.g., thermally activated at low temperature and non-thermally activated at high temperature); and (IV) ~9% exhibited unclassifiable mobility trends or were immobile over the studied temperature range. Thus, although the studied set of boundaries is not statistically representative of all GBs, it indicates that we must expand our preconceived notions to include new and interesting phenomena.

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Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. We acknowledge support from the U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences through the core research program.

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  1. Computational Materials Science and Engineering Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 87185-1411, USA

    Eric R. Homer, Elizabeth A. Holm & Stephen M. Foiles

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA

    Eric R. Homer

  3. Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Elizabeth A. Holm

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    David L. Olmsted

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Homer, E.R., Holm, E.A., Foiles, S.M. et al. Trends in Grain Boundary Mobility: Survey of Motion Mechanisms. JOM 66, 114–120 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-013-0801-2

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