The Morphology of Grain Boundary Interactions with Twins in YBa2Cu3O7−δ

1993 ◽  
Vol 319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenn-Yue Wang ◽  
A. H. King

AbstractVarious morphologies are observed where twins meet grain boundaries in YBa2Cu3O7−δ. Twins may be “correlated” at the boundary (i.e. twin boundaries from one grain may meet a twin boundary from the other grain in a quadruple junction) and the twins may be narrowed or “constricted” at the boundary. These effects are determined by the interfacial energy. We estimate the energy of the various interfaces by determining the dislocation arrays they contain, using the constrained coincidence site lattice (CCSL) model and Bollmann's O2-lattice formalism. Our approach indicates that there are significant changes in the energy of the interfaces and is thus able to explain the variety of observed morphologies.

Author(s):  
J. W. Matthews ◽  
W. M. Stobbs

Many high-angle grain boundaries in cubic crystals are thought to be either coincidence boundaries (1) or coincidence boundaries to which grain boundary dislocations have been added (1,2). Calculations of the arrangement of atoms inside coincidence boundaries suggest that the coincidence lattice will usually not be continuous across a coincidence boundary (3). There will usually be a rigid displacement of the lattice on one side of the boundary relative to that on the other. This displacement gives rise to a stacking fault in the coincidence lattice.Recently, Pond (4) and Smith (5) have measured the lattice displacement at coincidence boundaries in aluminum. We have developed (6) an alternative to the measuring technique used by them, and have used it to find two of the three components of the displacement at {112} lateral twin boundaries in gold. This paper describes our method and presents a brief account of the results we have obtained.


1994 ◽  
Vol 357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenn-Yue Wang ◽  
Alexander H. King

AbstractTwins in YBa2Cu3O7-δ may be “correlated” at [001] tilt grain boundaries (i.e. twin boundaries from one grain may meet twin boundaries from the other grain in quadruple junctions) and the twins may also be narrowed or “constricted” at the boundary. These effects are more pronounced in the regime of small angle grain boundaries. Based on TEM observations, a tentative threshold misorientation angle of approximately 15° is identified, below which there is a significant driving force reducing the system energy by correlation. The energies of various grain boundary domain structures associated with the twins were estimated on the basis of the dislocations they contain. Success has been obtained in explaining twin correlation in symmetrical tilt boundaries.


Author(s):  
Y. Ishida ◽  
H. Ichinose ◽  
Y. Inomata

The standard geometrical theory having been developed to describe periodically ordered grain boundaries in metals, ie coincidence-site lattice theory faces a new frontier to be expanded in terms of hierarchy of atomic structures in low energy grain boundaries of polytype SiC bicrystals. The unit translation lattice of the polytype crystal is large and elongated in the direction perpendicular to the basal plane. With the elongated translation lattice, the coincidence-site lattice is generally very large. Often too large to be physically significant, although the predictive role of the coincidence-site lattice theory in specifying the orientation of periodically ordered interface was still preserved. Such periodically ordered boundaries were indeed found to occur in the present SiC bicrystals as is predicted by the geometrical theory. A dual description of the grain boundary structure in terms of hierarchy of atomic structures is shown useful in characterizing the bicrystal boundaries.High purity SiC bicrystals were produced by sublimation-deposition method by cooling the encapseled SiC slowly from 2800K.


Author(s):  
Raja Subramanian ◽  
Kenneth S. Vecchio

Tungsten single crystals are brittle due to predominant twinning and crack formation at twin-twin intersections. Twinning and its influence on crack nucleation have been studied in detail. Despite the twinning, significant plastic deformation takes place by the generation and glide of dislocations. Hitherto uninvestigated dislocation structures and twin boundaries in tungsten <110> single crystals deformed quasistatically in compression have been studied using transmission electron microscopy.In compressed samples, cracks nucleate at twin-boundary intersections. Such a crack is indicated by an arrowhead in Figure 1 which shows an optical image of twin boundaries. Figure 2 shows a bright field (BF) image of a twin boundary (marked by an arrowhead). The inset in Figure 2 is the microdiffraction pattern taken at the twin boundary which shows a ∑3 coincidence site lattice (CSL) symmetry.


1992 ◽  
Vol 295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Mckernan ◽  
C. Barry Carter

AbstractGeneral high-angle tilt grain boundaries may be described by an arrangement of repeating structural units. Some grain-boundary defects may also be modeled by the incorporation of structural units of related boundary structures into the boundary. The simulation of these structures requires the use of prohibitively large unit cells. The possibility of modeling these boundaries by the superposition of image simulations of the individual structural units isinvestigated.


1991 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas E. Meyers ◽  
Alan J. Ardell

ABSTRACTThe results of our initial efforts at measuring the fracture strengths of grain boundaries In Ni3Al using a miniaturized disk-bend test are presented. The samples tested were 3 mm in diameter and between 150 and 300 μm thick. An Ingot of directlonally-solidlfled, boron-free Ni3Al containing 24% Al was annealed between 1300 and 1350 °C to induce grain growth, producing many grain boundaries In excess of 1.5 mm in length. Specimens were cut from these In such a way that one long grain boundary was located near a diameter of the specimen. The relative orientations of the grains on either side of the boundary were determined from electron channeling patterns. Low-angle boundaries are so strong they do not fracture; Instead the samples deform In a completely ductile manner. High-angle boundaries always fracture, but only after considerable plastic deformation of the two grains flanking them. Fracture is Indicated by a load drop in the load vs. displacement curves. A method involving extrapolation of the elastic portion of these curves to the displacement at fracture is used to estimate the fracture stresses. This procedure yields consistent values of the fracture strengths of high-angle boundaries. The measured stresses are large (∼2 to 3 GPa), but considerably smaller than those required for the fracture of special boundaries, as predicted by computer simulations. No correlation was found between the fracture stresses or loads and the geometry of the high-angle boundaries, many of which are close to, but deviate from, coincident site lattice orientations.


1990 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Re-Jhen Jhan ◽  
P. D. Bristowe

ABSTRACTA dynamical simulation of curved grain boundaries composed of pyramidal-shaped ledges has shown that the boundaries can move by local conservative shuffles of atoms or groups of atoms such that one adjoining crystal grows at the expense of the other. In the model system studied, the shuffles often take the form of correlated rotational displacements about the axis normal to the boundary. The simulations provide support for the atomic mechanism proposed by Babcock and Balluffi to explain their observation of grain boundary migration without the participation of SGBDs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.V. Skiba

Abstract Stress-driven grain boundary (GB) migration in ultrafine-grained materials with nanotwinned structure is theoretically described. In the framework of the theoretical model, the stress-driven high-angle GB migration is accompanied by migration of twin boundaries which adjoin this GB. Energetic characteristics and critical stresses of the GB migration accompanied by the twin boundary migration are calculated.


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