Dislocation impediment by the grain boundaries in polycrystals

Dislocation interactions mediated by grain boundaries

The dynamics of dislocation assemblies in deforming crystals indicates the emergence of collective phenomena, intermittent fluctuations and strain avalanches. In polycrystalline materials, the understanding of plastic deformation mechanisms depends on grasping the role of grain boundaries on dislocation motion. Here the interaction of dislocations and elastic, lowangle grain boundaries is studi...

Local Melting Attracts Grain Boundaries in Colloidal Polycrystals.

We find that laser-induced local melting attracts and deforms grain boundaries in 2D colloidal crystals. When a melted region in contact with the edge of a crystal grain recrystallizes, it deforms the grain boundary-this attraction is driven by the multiplicity of deformed grain boundary configurations. Furthermore, the attraction provides a method to fabricate artificial colloidal crystal grai...

Effects of grain boundaries on the mechanical behaviour of grains in polycrystals

Direct observation of individual dislocation interaction processes with grain boundaries

In deformation processes, the presence of grain boundaries has a crucial influence on dislocation behavior; these boundaries drastically change the mechanical properties of polycrystalline materials. It has been considered that grain boundaries act as effective barriers for dislocation glide, but the origin of this barrier-like behavior has been a matter of conjecture for many years. We directl...

Stress-free states of continuum dislocation fields: Rotations, grain boundaries, and the Nye dislocation density tensor

We derive general relations between grain boundaries, rotational deformations, and stress-free states for the mesoscale continuum Nye dislocation density tensor. Dislocations generally are associated with long-range stress fields. We provide the general form for dislocation density fields whose stress fields vanish. We explain that a grain boundary a dislocation wall satisfying Frank’s formula ...