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Atomic-Scale Simulation of Grain Boundary Kinetics during Recrystallization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Z. Trautt
Affiliation:
Group for Simulation and Theory of Atomic-scale Material Phenomena (stAMP) Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401 Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
M. Upmanyu
Affiliation:
Group for Simulation and Theory of Atomic-scale Material Phenomena (stAMP) Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401 Materials Science Program, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401.
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Abstract

We present two-dimensional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of symmetric tilt grain boundary kinetics, driven by stored energy of deformation. The latter is introduced by prescribing a well-defined gradient in dislocation density across a flat grain boundary. Bicrystals simulations reveal that the boundary motion, albeit jerky, increases linearly with simulation time. We also employ a control simulation to extract the driving force for motion, which then yields a unique boundary mobility. Preliminary comparisons with curvature driven boundary migration for misorientations 30° and 22.78° suggest that misorientation dependence of boundary migration is significantly less anisotropic, in turn implying that the mechanism of motion itself is different.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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