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Some interesting papers in recent issues of Acta

Guru wrote 3 weeks ago: [1] The effects of grain grooves on grain boundary migration in nanofilms A Novick-Cohen et al Using … more →

Tags: Allen-Cahn equation, Cahn-Hilliard equation, Defects, Grain growth, Literature survey, Texture, thin films

Grain rotation, growth, nucleation, magnetic thin films, stress, ...

Guru wrote 4 months ago: Some recent papers from scripta: [1] Kinetics and size effect of grain rotations in nanocrystals wit … more →

Tags: boundaries, Defects, Dislocations, Dynamics, GB migration, GB Mobility, Grain growth, Interfaces, magnetism

Abnormal grain growth

Guru wrote 4 months ago: Abnormal grain growth in Al–3.5Cu J Dennis et al Significant abnormal grain growth has been observed … more →

Tags: Coarsening, GB migration, GB Mobility, Grain growth

Effect of interface mobility on the evolution of grain assemblies

Guru wrote 4 months ago: May be this can be a case study for the course? Influence of interface mobility on the evolution of … more →

Tags: GB migration, GB Mobility, Interfaces

Classics in Materials Science: Shockley and Read's dislocation models of crystal grain boundaries2 comments

Guru wrote 5 months ago: Any crystalline material contains many defects. Depending on the topology of the defects, they can b … more →

Tags: Classics, AUST, bragg, Burgers, chalmers:, dislocation models of grain boundaries, energies of grain boundaries, Read-Shockley, small angle grain boundaries

Transformation kinetics, anisotropic sintering stress, growth kinetics, grain boundary energies in fcc materials, and thermodynamics of grain boundary premelting

Guru wrote 6 months ago: [1] Transformation kinetics for nucleus clusters E Villa and P R Rios A rigorous mathematical approa … more →

Tags: Phase field modelling, boundaries, Energy, Interfaces, kinetics

Dislocation dipoles and grain boundary pre-melting

Guru wrote 6 months ago: [1] The transformation of narrow dislocation dipoles in selected fcc metals and in γ-TiAl H Wang et … more →

Tags: Atomistic simulations, Defects, Dislocations

Triple junction energies

Guru wrote 6 months ago: Anomalous triple junction surface pits in nanocrystalline zirconia thin films and their relationship … more →

Grain boundaries and glass forming liquids

Guru wrote 6 months ago: An MD study from Srolovitz, Jim Warren and co-workers on the glassy nature of gbs in the latest PNAS … more →

Tags: Atomistic simulations

Grain boundaries, their engineering, morphological evolution of crystals, growth of bainite and solid-liquid interfacial energy

Guru wrote 6 months ago: [1] On the frequency of occurrence of tilt and twist grain boundaries A. Morawiec Homophase grain bo … more →

Tags: Phase field modelling, Interfaces, Phase transformations

Phase transformation kinetics under stress, solid state dendrites, Potts model for 3D grain growth, and, microstructure and magnetic properties

Guru wrote 8 months ago: [1] Austenite–ferrite transformation kinetics under uniaxial compressive stress in Fe–2.96 at.% Ni a … more →

Tags: Phase field modelling, Stability Analysis, Microstructural evolution, magnetism, Interfaces, Phase transformations

Dihedral angles, martensitic transformation in thin films, and role of twin boundaries in domain evolution

Guru wrote 8 months ago: Did you know that Acta these days uploads supplementary material — like videos? I didn’t … more →

Tags: Phase field modelling, Microstructural evolution, Phase transformations, Modelling

Papers of note in Acta -- mostly phase field models and mostly grain boundaries!

Guru wrote 9 months ago: [1] Simulation of damage evolution in composites: A phase-field model S B Biner and S Y Yu In this s … more →

Tags: Phase field modelling

A new concept in materials engineering called Complexion

Guru wrote 2 years ago: Title: Complexion: A new concept for kinetic engineering in materials science Authors: Shen J. Dillo … more →

Tags: boundaries, Interfaces, Thermodynamics, Complexion, kinetics

Continuum models of grain boundaries

Guru wrote 2 years ago: There are two important classes of models for the study of grain growth, namely, multiple order para … more →

Tags: Literature survey, Phase field modelling, Allen-Cahn equation, GB migration, boundaries, GB Mobility, Asymptotic analysis, Grain growth, vector valued order parameters

Polycrystalline solidifcation in 3D

Guru wrote 2 years ago: Title: Modeling the formation and dynamics of polycrystals in 3D Authors: Ryo Kobayashi and James A. … more →

Tags: Phase field modelling, solidification

Grain boundary--dislocation interactions

Guru wrote 2 years ago: Title: Spacing defects and disconnections in grain boundaries Authors: J.P. Hirth, R.C. Pond, and J. … more →

Tags: Dislocations

Grain boundaries and Nye dislocation density tensor4 comments

Guru wrote 2 years ago: Title: Stress-free states of continuum dislocation fields: Rotations, grain boundaries, and the Nye … more →

Tags: Dislocations

In Nature this week

Guru wrote 2 years ago: Of course the big story, as I blogged elsewhere, is the higher dimensional generalizations of the Ne … more →

Tags: GB migration, nanotechnology, Scientists, Books, Review


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