Intergranular Corrosion and Anodic Polarization at Grain Boundary Groove in Fe-28%Cr Alloy

The Correlation between Grain Boundary Character and Intergranular Corrosion Susceptibility of 2124 Aluminum Alloy

The effects of grain boundary character on the intergranular corrosion susceptibility of 2124 aluminum alloy were examined. In the study, the alloy was heat treated at 540oC and corrosion tested according to ASTM G110 standards. After obtaining grain orientations from the automated Electron Back-Scatter Diffraction (EBSD), both grain boundary character and grain boundary plane distributions wer...

Intergranular pitting corrosion of CoCrMo biomedical implant alloy.

CoCrMo samples of varying microstructure and carbon content were electrochemically corroded in vitro and examined by scanning electron microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction techniques. The rate of corrosion was minimized (80% reduction from icorr = 1396 nA/cm(2) to icorr = 276 nA/cm(2) ) in high-carbon CoCrMo alloys which displayed a coarser grain structure and partially dissolved sec...

SEGREGATION AT SPECIAL GRAIN BOUNDARIES IN Fe-Si ALLOY BICRYSTALS

The segre ation of silicon to the C=3, 112) and C=S, (013) symmetrical grain boundaries 1 was studied in well-fefined bicrystals of an Fe-l .9 at%Si alloy annealed in the range 773 1173 K using Auger electron spectroscopy. The segregation enthal y, AI1 = -8.1 * 0.5 kJ/mol, and entropy, AS = -69 r 0.4 i/(mol K), were determined for the (013f grain boundary in the temperature range 973 1173 K. Fo...

Interstitial emission at grain boundary in nanolayered alpha-Fe

The Autonomous Basin Climbing method and Rate Theory are applied to investigate the interstitial emission mechanism in alpha-Fe. The atomic trajectories and potential energy landscape of the interstitial emission process induced by the S3<110>{111} symmetrical tilt grain boundary are presented. By comparing with vacancy hopping mechanism, the grain boundary influence range at finite temperature...

EFFECT OF GRAIN-BOUNDARY STRUCTURE ON STRESS CORROSION CRACKING IN Cu-Al ALLOY BICRYSTALS