In situ studies on grain boundary migration in ceria-stabilized TZP

Author(s):  
Herbert K Schmid

Tetragonal zirconia polycrystals (TZP) have become of interest due to their exceptionally good combination of mechanical properties. In a previous study the microstructure/microchemistry of grain boundaries (GBs) in CeO2 stabilized ZrO2 (Ce-TZP) was investigated and evidence was found on the existence of vitreous ana crystalline intergranular phases in these ceramics. Recently, the observation of wavy GBs in ceria-zirconia was reported. This phenomenon was attributed to diffusion-induced grain boundary migration (DIGM). In the present work, the in-situ TEM observation of GB migration in Ce-TZP, nominally at room temperature, is reported.Thin foils for TEM observations were prepared from a Ce-TZP ceramic nominally composed of 90 mol% ZrO2 plus 10 mol% CeO2 and were examined in a Philips EM 420 analytical STEM, operated at 120 kV. Grain boundaries were observed to migrate in specimen areas exposed to extensive electron irradiation during TEM experiments. The micrograph in Fig. 1 shows a BF image of a triple grain junction (TJ) area in the as-prepared state.

Author(s):  
S. E. Babcock ◽  
R. W. Balluffi

Over the past several years, a wealth of experimental evidence concerning the structure of simple grain boundaries (GBs) in metals has accumulated which suggests that the GBD/SU description of GB structure is applicable, at least at some level, to GBs in general. According to this model, high-angle GBs contain intrinsic arrays of grain boundary dislocations (GBDs) possessing Burgers vectors (b) which are translation vectors of an appropriate DSC-lattice, arranged in a network which is consistent with Frank's formula.A special property of secondary GBDs (SGBDs), i.e., GBDs possessing bs which are not lattice vectors of either of the adjoining crystals, is that a step in the boundary plane is often associated with their core.


2013 ◽  
Vol 333 ◽  
pp. 101-106
Author(s):  
Dmitri A. Molodov ◽  
Christoph Günster ◽  
Günter Gottstein

The migration of planar grain boundaries induced by a magnetic field was measured in specially grown zinc bicrystals (99.995%). Particularly, symmetrical and asymmetrical <> tilt grain boundaries with rotation angles in the range between 60° and 90° were investigated. Boundary migration was measured in-situ in the temperature range between 330°C and 415°C and the absolute values of grain boundary mobility were obtained. The results revealed that grain boundary mobility essentially depends on the misorientation angle and the inclination of the boundary plane. An application of a magnetic field during the annealing of cold rolled (90%) Zn-1.1%Al sheet specimens substantially affected the texture and microstructure evolution. This effect is attributed to the additional magnetic driving force for grain growth arising due to the magnetic anisotropy of zinc.


Author(s):  
D. B. Williams ◽  
A. D. Romig

The segregation of solute or imparity elements to grain boundaries can occur by three well-defined processes. The first is Gibbsian segregation in which an element of minimal matrix solubility confines itself to a monolayer at the grain boundary. Classical examples include Bi in Cu and S or P in Fe. The second process involves the depletion of excess matrix solute by volume diffusion to the boundary. In the boundary, the solute atoms diffuse rapidly to precipitates, causing them to grow by the ‘collector-plate mechanism.’ Such grain boundary diffusion is thought to initiate “Diffusion-Induced Grain Boundary Migration,” (DIGM). This process has been proposed as the origin of eutectoid transformations or discontinuous grain boundary reactions. The third segregation process is non-equilibrium segregation which result in a solute build-up around the boundary because of solute-vacancy interactions.All of these segregation phenomena usually occur on a sub-micron scale and are often affected by the nature of the grain boundary (misorientation, defect structure, boundary plane).


Author(s):  
K. Vasudevan ◽  
H. P. Kao ◽  
C. R. Brooks ◽  
E. E. Stansbury

The Ni4Mo alloy has a short-range ordered fee structure (α) above 868°C, but transforms below this temperature to an ordered bet structure (β) by rearrangement of atoms on the fee lattice. The disordered α, retained by rapid cooling, can be ordered by appropriate aging below 868°C. Initially, very fine β domains in six different but crystallographically related variants form and grow in size on further aging. However, in the temperature range 600-775°C, a coarsening reaction begins at the former α grain boundaries and the alloy also coarsens by this mechanism. The purpose of this paper is to report on TEM observations showing the characteristics of this grain boundary reaction.


Fractals ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 189-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIKI TAKAHASHI ◽  
HIROYUKI NAGAHAMA

Fractal analysis on experimentally recrystallized quartz grain boundaries has been employed to relate the grain boundary complexities with deformation conditions, such as strain rate and temperature. The fractal dimensional increment of the grain boundaries, defined as (D-1), and the degree of irregularity in grain boundaries, is proportional to the logarithmic of the Zener–Hollomon parameter that is defined by strain rate and temperature (the Arrhenius term). The physical mean of the empirical relationship can be explained theoretically by a new grain boundary migration model (GBM or cell dynamics model) extended by the fractal concepts and the dimension analysis. This is a more general model than the migration growth model for the fractal grain boundaries.


2005 ◽  
Vol 495-497 ◽  
pp. 1249-1254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henryk Paul ◽  
Julian H. Driver ◽  
Arnaud Lens

The crystallography of recrystallization nucleation has been investigated in channel-die deformed pure aluminium bicrystals with {100}<011>/{110}<001> and {100}<001>/{110}<001> orientations. The new grain orientations and misorientations were followed by systematic local orientation measurements using SEM and semi-automatic measurements in a TEM. In particular, orientation mapping combined with in-situ sample heating was used to investigate the formation and growth of new grains and their crystallographic orientation changes at very early stages of recrystallization. Grain boundary migration and ‘consumption’ of the as-deformed areas was always favoured along directions parallel to the traces of the {111} slip planes that had been most active during deformation. The orientations of the first formed nuclei were misoriented with respect to the orientations identified within the neighbouring deformed areas by α(<111>, <112>, or <100>)relations.


1988 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce C. Liu ◽  
Jian Li ◽  
J. W. Mayer ◽  
Charles W. Allen ◽  
Lynn E. Rehn

ABSTRACTIn situ observations of 1.5 MeV Xe+ ion irradiated Au films at room temperature and at 150°C reveal the evolution of grain growth: the average grain size increases by the mechanisms of grain boundary migration and grain coalescence.


2007 ◽  
Vol 550 ◽  
pp. 387-392
Author(s):  
Pavel Lejček

Anisotropy of grain boundary motion in a Fe–6at.%Si alloy is represented by a spectrum of values of the activation enthalpy of migration and the pre-exponential factor, depending on the orientation of individual grain boundaries. The general plot of these values exhibits a pronounced linear interdependence called the compensation effect. It is shown that changes of these values, caused by changes of intensive variables, are thermodynamically consistent.


Minerals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Caroline Bollinger ◽  
Billy Nzogang ◽  
Alexandre Mussi ◽  
Jérémie Bouquerel ◽  
Dmitri Molodov ◽  
...  

Plastic deformation of peridotites in the mantle involves large strains. Orthorhombic olivine does not have enough slip systems to satisfy the von Mises criterion, leading to strong hardening when polycrystals are deformed at rather low temperatures (i.e., below 1200 °C). In this study, we focused on the recovery mechanisms involving grain boundaries and recrystallization. We investigated forsterite samples deformed at large strains at 1100 °C. The deformed microstructures were characterized by transmission electron microscopy using orientation mapping techniques (ACOM-TEM). With this technique, we increased the spatial resolution of characterization compared to standard electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) maps to further decipher the microstructures at nanoscale. After a plastic strain of 25%, we found pervasive evidence for serrated grain and subgrain boundaries. We interpreted these microstructural features as evidence of occurrences of grain boundary migration mechanisms. Evaluating the driving forces for grain/subgrain boundary motion, we found that the surface tension driving forces were often greater than the strain energy driving force. At larger strains (40%), we found pervasive evidence for discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (dDRX), with nucleation of new grains at grain boundaries. The observations reveal that subgrain migration and grain boundary bulging contribute to the nucleation of new grains. These mechanisms are probably critical to allow peridotitic rocks to achieve large strains under a steady-state regime in the lithospheric mantle.


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