A high-throughput technique for determining grain boundary character non-destructively in microstructures with through-thickness grains Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • AbstractGrain boundaries (GBs) govern many properties of polycrystalline materials. However, because of their structural variability, our knowledge of GB constitutive relations is still very limited. We present a novel method to characterise the complete crystallography of individual GBs non-destructively, with high-throughput, and using commercially available tools. This method combines electron diffraction, optical reflectance and numerical image analysis to determine all five crystallographic parameters of numerous GBs in samples with through-thickness grains. We demonstrate the technique by measuring the crystallographic character of about 1,000 individual GBs in aluminum in a single run. Our method enables cost- and time-effective assembly of crystallographyproperty databases for thousands of individual GBs. Such databases are essential for identifying GB constitutive relations and for predicting GB-related behaviours of polycrystalline solids.

published proceedings

  • NPJ COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS

altmetric score

  • 11

author list (cited authors)

  • Seita, M., Volpi, M., Patala, S., McCue, I., Schuh, C. A., Diamanti, M. V., Erlebacher, J., & Demkowicz, M. J.

citation count

  • 21

complete list of authors

  • Seita, Matteo||Volpi, Marco||Patala, Srikanth||McCue, Ian||Schuh, Christopher A||Diamanti, Maria Vittoria||Erlebacher, Jonah||Demkowicz, Michael J

publication date

  • January 2016