Overview
- Written by an expert in the field
- Offers the first complete overview of grain boundaries
- Leads researchers working on macroscopic aspects, closely related to materials properties, to approach the scale of description of grain boundaries
- Explores opportunities emerging through "grain boundary engineering" to control morphological and crystallographic features
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Materials Science (SSMATERIALS, volume 172)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From Grain Boundary Order to Disorder
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FROM GRAIN BOUNDARY ORDER TO DISORDER
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From Ideal to Real Grain Boundary
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From the Free to the Constrained Grain Boundary
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FROM THE FREE TO THE CONSTRAINED GRAIN BOUNDARY
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 polycrystal.
This book presents the theoretical basis of the study of grain boundaries and aims to open up new lines of research in this area. The treatment is light on mathematical approaches while emphasizing practical examples; the issues they raise are discussed with reference to theories. The general approach of the book has two main goals: to lead the reader from the concept of ‘ideal’ to ‘real’ grain boundaries;
to depart from established knowledge and address the opportunities emerging through "grain boundary engineering", the control of morphological and crystallographic features that affect material properties.
The book is divided in three parts:
I ‘From interganular order to disorder’ deals with the concept of the perfect grain boundary, at equilibrium, and questions the maintenance of its crystalline state.
II ‘From the ideal to the real grain boundary’ deals with the concept of the faulted grain boundary. It attempts to reveal the influence of the grain boundary structure on its defects, their formation and their accommodation.
III ‘From free to constrained grain boundaries’ is devoted to grain boundary ensembles starting from the triple junction (the elemental configuration) to real grain boundary networks in polycrystals
This part covers a new and topical development in the field. It presents for the first time an avenue for researchers working on macroscopic aspects, to approach the scale of description of grain boundaries.
Audience: graduate students, researchers and engineers in Materials Science and all those scientists pursuing grain boundary engineering in order to improve materials performance.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Universite Paris 11
She is a specialist on grain boudaries and dedicated to this subject her entire career as a researcher and teacher. She has 150 contributions on the topic.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Grain Boundaries
Book Subtitle: From Theory to Engineering
Authors: Louisette Priester
Series Title: Springer Series in Materials Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4969-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4968-9Published: 27 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8422-1Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4969-6Published: 28 November 2012
Series ISSN: 0933-033X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-2812
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 442
Topics: Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Crystallography and Scattering Methods, Physical Chemistry, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Metallic Materials