A Simple Evaluation of Grain Boundary Diffusion in Liquid Metal Embrittlement

A Simple Evaluation of Grain Boundary Diffusion in Liquid Metal Embrittlement

Most works on liquid metal embrittlement up to 1960 are compiled by Rostoker et al. (1) They stated that grain boundary diffusion is not an origin of embrittlement, since its rate, in general, is too small. However, Waterhouse et al. (2), performing the experiment on 70/30 brass wetted with mercury, suggested that dissolution of zinc from grain-boundaries into mercury accelerates the degree of ...

Viscous constitutive relations of solid-liquid composites in terms of grain boundary contiguity: 1. Grain boundary diffusion control model

[1] Viscous constitutive relations of partially molten rocks deforming in the regime of grain boundary (GB) diffusion creep are derived theoretically on the basis of microstructural processes at the grain scale. The viscous constitutive relation developed in this study is based on contiguity as an internal state variable, which enables us to take into account the detailed effects of grain-scale...

Grain Boundary Diffusion and Fractal Interface Concept

On Diffusion-Induced Grain-Boundary Motion

We consider a sharp interface model which describes diffusioninduced grain-boundary motion in a poly-crystalline material. This model leads to a fully nonlinear coupled system of partial differential equations. We show existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions.

Grain-boundary engineering markedly reduces susceptibility to intergranular hydrogen embrittlement in metallic materials

The feasibility of using ‘‘grain-boundary engineering” techniques to reduce the susceptibility of a metallic material to intergranular embrittlement in the presence of hydrogen is examined. Using thermomechanical processing, the fraction of ‘‘special” grain boundaries was increased from 46% to 75% (by length) in commercially pure nickel samples. In the presence of hydrogen concentrations betwee...