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Superplasticity and grain boundaries in ultrafine-grained materials

A L Zhilyaev, CSIC, Spain and A I Pshenichnyuk, Institute for Superplasticity of Metals, Russia

Woodhead Publishing Series in Metals and Surface Engineering No. 43

 - discusses significant problems associated with grain boundaries in polycrystals incorporating structural superplasticity and grain boundary sliding
 - assesses the role of grain boundaries in processes such as grain boundary diffusion, relaxation and grain growth
 - explores the formation and evolution of the microstructure, texture and ensembles of grain boundaries in materials produced by severe plastic deformation

Superplasticity is a state in which solid crystalline materials, such as some fine-grained metals, are deformed well beyond their usual breaking point. The phenomenon is of importance in processes such as superplastic forming which allows the manufacture of complex, high-quality components in such areas as aerospace and biomedical engineering.

Superplasticity and grain boundaries in ultrafine-grained materials discusses a number of problems associated with grain boundaries in metallic polycrystalline materials. The role of grain boundaries in processes such as grain boundary diffusion, relaxation and grain growth is investigated. The authors explore the formation and evolution of the microstructure, texture and ensembles of grain boundaries in materials produced by severe plastic deformation.

Written by two leading experts in the field, Superplasticity and grain boundaries in ultrafine-grained materials significantly advances our understanding of this important phenomenon and will be an important reference work for metallurgists and those involved in superplastic forming processes.

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About the authors

Dr Alexander Zhilyaev works at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalurgicas (CENIM), CSIC, Spain.

Dr A. Pshenichnyuk works at the Institute for Superplasticity of Metals, Russia. Both are noted for their research on superplasticity.

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Contents

Structural superplasticity of polycrystalline materials
 - Structural levels, spatial scales and description levels
 - Structural superplasticity: from the combination of mechanisms to cooperative grain boundaries sliding
 - Structural superplasticity: from meso-description to macrocharacteristics
 - References

Characteristics of grain boundary enesembles
 - Crystal geometry and structure of intercrystalline boundaries
 - Methods for describing the structure of the grain boundaries
 - Analytical representation of the basis of the coincident-site lattice for cubic lattices
 - Special grain boundaries in the monoclinic lattice
 - Description of the grain boundary misorientation distribution (GBMD)
 - Computer model of a polycrystal. A calculation algorithm
 - References

Orientation-distributed parameters of the polycrystalline structure
 - The distribution function of the grains with respect to crystallographic orientations. Calculation methods
 - Relationship between the grain boundary misorientation distribution and the ODF
 - Correlation orientation of adjacent grains. The concept of the basis spectra of misorientation of the grain boundaries
 - Modelling the misorientation spectra of the grain boundaries in the FCC crystals with modelling ODF
 - References

Experimental investigation of the ensembles of grain boundaries in polycrystals
 - Diffraction methods of measuring misorientation
 - Methods of measuring the misorientation of two adjacent grains
 - The experimental measurement error
 - Experimental spectra of the grain boundaries in FCC polycrystals
 - Orientation distribution function in nichrome. Experimental and modelling GBMDs
 - Orientation distribution function in nichrome and stainless steels
 - Modelling spectra of the misorientation of the grain boundaries in nichrome and AISI stainless steels. Comparison with the experimental results
 - Special features of the grain boundaries in the FCC materials with a high stacking fault energy
 - Rolling and annealing texture of aluminium
 - Grain boundary and samples in aluminium: experiments and modelling
 - References

Grain boundary sliding in metallic bi- and tricrystals
 - Dislocation nature of grain boundary sliding (GBS)
 - Formulation of the model of stimulated grain boundary sliding
 - Formal solution and its analysis
 - Special features of pure grain boundary sliding
 - Local migration of the grain boundary as the mechanism of reor ganisation of the triple junction. Weak migration approximation
 - Variance formulation of the system of equations for the shape of the boundary and pile-up density
 - The power of pile-ups of grain boundary dislocations
 - References

Percolation mechanism of deformation processes in ultrafine-grained polycrystals
 - Percolation mechanism of the formation of a band of cooperative grain boundary sliding
 - Conditions of formation of CGBS bands as the condition of realisation of the superplastic deformation regime
 - Shear rate along the CGBS band
 - Kinetics of deformation in CGBS bands
 - Comparison of the calculated values with the experimental results
 - References

Percolation processes in a network of grain boundaries in ultrafine-grained materials
 - Effect of grain boundaries on oxidation and diffusion processes in polycrystalline oxide films
 - High-resolution electron microscopy of zirconium oxide: grain clusters, surrounded only by special boundaries
 - Effect of the statistics of the grain boundaries on diffusion in zirconium oxide
 - Special features of oxidation kinetics under the effect of stresses at the metal/oxide boundary
 - Texture and spectrum of misorientation of the grain boundaries in a NiO film on (100) and (111) substrates: modelling
 - and experiments
 - References

Microstructure and grain boundary ensembles in ultrafine-grained materials
 - Methods of producing ultrafine-grained and nanostructured materials by severe plastic deformation
 - Effect of the parameters of quasi-hydrostatic pressure on the microstructure and grain boundary ensembles in nickel
 - Spectrum of misorientation of grain boundaries in ultrafine-grained nickel
 - Advanced methods of automatic measurement of the grain boundary parameters
 - The misorientation distribution of the grain boundaries in ultrafine-grained nickel. Experiments and modelling
 - References

Grain boundary processes in ultrafine-grained nickel and nanonickel
 - Grain growth kinetics in ECAP specimens
 - Activation energy and stored enthalpy in ultrafine-grained nickel
 - Evolution of the microstructure and texture in HPT nickel in annealing
 - Superplasticity of nanocrystalline nickel
 - References

Duration of the stage of stable flow in superplastic deformation
 - Superplastic capacity and the rate sensitivity paramete
 - Description of thickness differences of a flat specimen in tensile deformation
 - Formation of thickness difference as a random process
 - Absorption condition and the equation for limiting strain
 - Some properties of limiting strain
 - References

Dervivation of constitutive equations in multicomponent loading condistions
 - From the deformation mechanism to constitutive equations
 - Kinematics of polycrystalline continuum
 - Strain rate tensor determined by shear along the CGBS bands
 - Degenerate cases and variants of coaxiality of the tensors
 - References