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Grain Boundary Properties: Energy (L21) - Materials Science and ...

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Why learn about grain boundary<br />

properties?<br />

• Many aspects of materials processing, properties <strong>and</strong><br />

performance are affected by grain boundary<br />

properties.<br />

• Examples include:<br />

- stress corrosion cracking in Pb battery electrodes,<br />

Ni-alloy nuclear fuel containment, steam generator<br />

tubes, aerospace aluminum alloys<br />

- creep strength in high service temperature alloys<br />

- weld cracking (under investigation)<br />

- electromigration resistance (interconnects)<br />

• <strong>Grain</strong> growth <strong>and</strong> recrystallization<br />

• Precipitation of second phases at grain boundaries<br />

depends on interface energy (& structure).

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