ABSTRACT

A major goal of materials science is to create new engineering materials and optimize their cost and performance. Understanding how adjacent materials behave at their borders is an essential part of this process. Grain boundaries are the longest-known crystal defects, but although they were discovered in the mid-eighteenth century, until quite rece

chapter 1|110 pages

Thermodynamics of Grain Boundaries

chapter 2|24 pages

Structure of Grain Boundaries

chapter 3|194 pages

Grain Boundary Motion

chapter 6|76 pages

Applications

chapter 7|12 pages

Appendices

chapter 8|78 pages

Solutions