Inelastic microstructural failure mechanisms in crystalline materials with high angle grain boundaries

MA Zikry, M Kao - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 1996 - Elsevier
… standing the material mechanisms that trigger failure. On a macroscopic … the grains are
homogeneous, and that the grain boundaries are only locations where stress and strain boundary

How oxidized grain boundaries fail

H Dugdale, DEJ Armstrong, E Tarleton, SG Roberts… - acta materialia, 2013 - Elsevier
failure mechanism and its relation to microstructure. In order to test the validity of the SIO
mechanism, … technique to investigate the mechanical properties of individual grain boundaries. …

Deformation-twin-induced grain boundary failure

Y Zhang, PC Millett, M Tonks, B Biner - Scripta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
… In summary, a deformation-twin-induced GB failure mechanism is presented and … The
GB failure originates from incompatible plastic deformation between neighboring grains, and …

Grain boundary versus transgranular ductile failure

T Pardoen, D Dumont, A Deschamps… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2003 - Elsevier
… The transgranular failure mechanism is favoured by a low global stress triaxiality as it allows
… competition between grain boundary ductile failure and transgranular ductile failure is not …

Intrinsic strength and failure behaviors of graphene grain boundaries

J Zhang, J Zhao, J Lu - ACS nano, 2012 - ACS Publications
… , grain boundaries (GBs) can affect many intrinsic properties of graphene. In this paper, the
mechanical properties of 20 representative graphene grain boundariesfailure mechanism of …

Grain boundary structure, chemistry, and failure

CL Briant - Materials science and technology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
… assess various failure mechanisms and that one must also address these issues in high
angle, asymmetric grain boundaries. One of the key themes of the paper is that the boundary is …

Effect of loading direction on grain boundary failure under shock loading

SJ Fensin, JP Escobedo-Diaz, C Brandl, EK Cerreta… - Acta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
… of grain boundary inclination with respect to the loading direction on void nucleation at a
boundary… Of course, to completely understand deformation, and eventually failure mechanisms, …

Intergranularfailure in steel: the role of grain-boundary composition

CL Briant, SK Banerji - International metals reviews, 1978 - journals.sagepub.com
… shelf impact energy of the steel and causing the ductile failure to occur along the grain
boundaries. … could not be explained logically by this mechanism, since the e-carbide -7 cementite …

A crystallographic mechanism for fatigue crack propagation through grain boundaries

T Zhai, AJ Wilkinson, JW Martin - Acta materialia, 2000 - Elsevier
… the crystallography of all of the grains and grain boundaries along the path taken by short …
This paper is concerned with the mechanism of short crack retardation at grain boundaries

Strength and failure behavior of a graphene sheet containing bi-grain-boundaries

B Yang, S Wang, Y Guo, J Yuan, Y Si, S Zhang… - RSC Advances, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
failure mechanisms of a graphene sheet containing bi-grain-… with two grain boundaries
(denoted as bi-grain-boundary), in … one-grain-boundary. Regarding the graphene containing bi-…