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Title: Anomalous strain-energy-driven macroscale translation of grains during nonisothermal annealing

Abstract

We report a mode of grain growth, involving the macroscopic translation of grain centers during nonisothermal annealing. Through synchrotron high-energy x-ray diffraction microscopy, we find dissolution of semicoherent precipitates generates dislocations, thereby raising the stored strain energy within grains. Here, the subsequent evolution of grains shows unexpected grain translations over length scales of 10-100 mu m. Phase-field simulations reveal that such translations are not uncommon in strain-energy-driven grain growth, wherein different regions of a grain may grow and shrink simultaneously.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [2];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [4];  [4]; ORCiD logo [3];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  2. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  3. Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI (United States)
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1826180
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Grain boundaries; Growth; Microstructure

Citation Formats

Higgins, M. J., Kang, J., Huang, G., Montiel, D., Lu, N., Liu, H., Shen, Y-F, Staublin, P., Park, J. -S., Almer, J. D., Kenesei, P., Sanders, P. G., Suter, R. M., Thornton, K., and Shahani, A. J.. Anomalous strain-energy-driven macroscale translation of grains during nonisothermal annealing. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevmaterials.5.l070401.
Higgins, M. J., Kang, J., Huang, G., Montiel, D., Lu, N., Liu, H., Shen, Y-F, Staublin, P., Park, J. -S., Almer, J. D., Kenesei, P., Sanders, P. G., Suter, R. M., Thornton, K., & Shahani, A. J.. Anomalous strain-energy-driven macroscale translation of grains during nonisothermal annealing. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevmaterials.5.l070401
Higgins, M. J., Kang, J., Huang, G., Montiel, D., Lu, N., Liu, H., Shen, Y-F, Staublin, P., Park, J. -S., Almer, J. D., Kenesei, P., Sanders, P. G., Suter, R. M., Thornton, K., and Shahani, A. J.. Wed . "Anomalous strain-energy-driven macroscale translation of grains during nonisothermal annealing". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevmaterials.5.l070401. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1826180.
@article{osti_1826180,
title = {Anomalous strain-energy-driven macroscale translation of grains during nonisothermal annealing},
author = {Higgins, M. J. and Kang, J. and Huang, G. and Montiel, D. and Lu, N. and Liu, H. and Shen, Y-F and Staublin, P. and Park, J. -S. and Almer, J. D. and Kenesei, P. and Sanders, P. G. and Suter, R. M. and Thornton, K. and Shahani, A. J.},
abstractNote = {We report a mode of grain growth, involving the macroscopic translation of grain centers during nonisothermal annealing. Through synchrotron high-energy x-ray diffraction microscopy, we find dissolution of semicoherent precipitates generates dislocations, thereby raising the stored strain energy within grains. Here, the subsequent evolution of grains shows unexpected grain translations over length scales of 10-100 mu m. Phase-field simulations reveal that such translations are not uncommon in strain-energy-driven grain growth, wherein different regions of a grain may grow and shrink simultaneously.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevmaterials.5.l070401},
journal = {Physical Review Materials},
number = 7,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {2021},
month = {7}
}

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