As nanocrystalline (NC) materials exhibit many unique properties, which are often superior
to the properties of their coarse-grained counterparts, they offer significant potential for use …

The grain growth behaviour that occurs during near solvus isothermal and transient heat
treatments and the influence of primary γ′ has been studied in the advanced polycrystalline …

Plastic flow and microstructure evolution during sub-and supersolvus forging and
subsequent supersolvus heat treatment of the powder-metallurgy superalloy LSHR (low …

A novel cellular automata model was developed to simulate the grain coarsening kinetics at
various conditions. The grain coarsening processes for different grain/particle interfacial …

The effect of subsolvus forging temperature and strain rate on the grain size developed
during final supersolvus heat treatment (SSHT) of two powder-metallurgy, gamma–gamma …

The effect of microstructure and soft impingement on the kinetics of static dissolution of γ′
precipitates during supersolvus solution treatment of the powder-metallurgy nickel-base …

The thermal stability and grain growth kinetics of a high-pressure die casting (HPDC) Mg-6Y–
3Zn-1Al (WZA631, wt%) alloy with long-period stacking ordered (LPSO) phase is studied by …

Grain growth in Fe–Ga alloy is investigated to study the influence of NbC particles on grain
boundary pinning and the promotion of abnormal grain growth (AGG) during anneals. AGG …

In multicomponent thin films, properties and functionalities related to post-deposition
annealing treatments, such as thermal stability, optical absorption and surface morphology …

Pinning effect of second-phase particles has been demonstrated as an extremely effective
way to impede grain boundary (GB) migration to increase strength or thermal stability …