Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1445930 | Acta Materialia | 2014 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
Anisotropy of interfacial energy is the principal driving force for thermally driven microstructure evolution, yet its origins remain uncertain and a quantitative description lacking. We present and justify a concise hypothesis on the topography of the functional space of interface energies and, based on this hypothesis, construct a closed-form function that quantitatively describes energy variations in the 5-space of macroscopic parameters defining grain boundary geometry. The new function is found to be universal for the crystallography class of face-centered cubic (fcc) metals.
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Authors
Vasily V. Bulatov, Bryan W. Reed, Mukul Kumar,