Grain-boundary kinetics: A unified approach

J Han, SL Thomas, DJ Srolovitz - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Grain boundaries (GBs) are central defects for describing polycrystalline materials, and
playing major role in a wide-range of physical properties of polycrystals. Control over GB …

Dislocation interactions with grain boundaries

J Kacher, BP Eftink, B Cui, IM Robertson - Current Opinion in Solid State …, 2014 - Elsevier
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Probing grain boundary sink strength at the nanoscale: Energetics and length scales of vacancy and interstitial absorption by grain boundaries in -Fe

MA Tschopp, KN Solanki, F Gao, X Sun… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
The energetics and length scales associated with the interaction between point defects
(vacancies and self-interstitial atoms) and grain boundaries in bcc Fe was explored …

Grain-size dependent mechanical behavior of nanocrystalline metals

EN Hahn, MA Meyers - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2015 - Elsevier
Grain size has a profound effect on the mechanical response of metals. Molecular dynamics
continues to expand its range from a handful of atoms to grain sizes up to 50 nm, albeit …

Symmetric and asymmetric tilt grain boundary structure and energy in Cu and Al (and transferability to other fcc metals)

MA Tschopp, SP Coleman, DL McDowell - Integrating Materials and …, 2015 - Springer
Symmetric and asymmetric tilt grain boundaries in Cu and Al were generated using
molecular statics energy minimization in a classical molecular dynamics code with in-plane …

Quantitative study of the effect of grain boundary parameters on the slip system level Hall-Petch slope for basal slip system in Mg-4Al

MT Andani, A Lakshmanan, V Sundararaghavan… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Several theoretical studies have reported that the geometry and structure of grain
boundaries in polycrystalline materials could impose a significant effect on the Hall-Petch …

A review on atomistic simulation of grain boundary behaviors in face-centered cubic metals

L Zhang, C Lu, K Tieu - Computational Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Grain boundaries are the interfaces between differently oriented crystals of the same
material. The underlying structures of grain boundary play a significant role in mechanical …

Atomistic migration mechanisms of [12 10] symmetric tilt grain boundaries in magnesium

C Xu, X Tian, W Jiang, Q Wang, H Fan - International Journal of Plasticity, 2022 - Elsevier
Grain boundary (GB) is an important microstructure and plays a vital role in the mechanical
properties of polycrystalline materials by GB migration and sliding. In this work, molecular …

“Bulk” nanocrystalline metals: review of the current state of the art and future opportunities for copper and copper alloys

MA Tschopp, HA Murdoch, LJ Kecskes, KA Darling - Jom, 2014 - Springer
It is a new beginning for innovative fundamental and applied science in nanocrystalline
materials. Many of the processing and consolidation challenges that have haunted …

Breakdown of the Schmid law in homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation events of slip and twinning in magnesium

CD Barrett, H El Kadiri, MA Tschopp - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics …, 2012 - Elsevier
During the past two decades, twinning and slip in hexagonal close-packed structures have
been extensively studied using molecular dynamics. However, the simulation methods and …