Grain Boundaries and Crystalline Plasticity

Louisette Priester is Emerita Professor at the Paris-Sud University, Orsay, France. She has published around 200 articles in journals and contributed to about 150 national and international conferences.

• Preface xiChapter 1. Grain Boundary Structures and Defects 1Jany THIBAULT-PENISSON and Louisette PRIESTER1.1. Equilibrium structure of grain boundaries 11.2. Crystalline defects of grain boundaries 181.3. Conclusion 411.4. Bibliography 42Chapter 2. Elementary Grain Boundary Deformation Mechanisms 47Jean-Philippe COUZINIE and Louisette PRIESTER2.1. Dislocation in close proximity to a grain boundary 482.2. Elastic interaction between dislocations and grain boundaries: image force 492.3. Short range (or core) interaction between dislocations and grain boundaries       522.4. Relaxation of stress fields associated with extrinsic dislocations 812.5. Relationships between elementary interface mechanisms and mechanical behaviors of materials 982.6. Bibliography 102Chapter 3. Grain Boundaries in Cold Deformation 109Colette REY, Denis SOLAS and Olivier FANDEUR3.1. Introduction 1093.2. Plastic compatibility and incompatibility of deformation at grain boundaries          1113.3. Internal stresses in polycrystal grains 1173.4. Modeling local mechanical fields using the finite element method (FEM)1293.5. Hall-Petch’s law, geometrically necessary dislocations 1393.6. Sub-grain boundaries and grain boundaries in deformation and recrystallization           1453.7. Conclusion 1553.8. Bibliography 156Chapter 4. Creep and High Temperature Plasticity: Grain Boundary Dynamics 165Sylvie LARTIGUE-KORINEK and Claude Paul CARRY4.1. Introduction 1654.2. Grain boundaries and grain growth 1684.3. Grain boundaries and creep: mechanisms and phenomenological laws 1744.4. Grain boundaries and superplasticity 1974.5. Prospects: creep of nanograined materials 2084.6. Bibliography 209Chapter 5. Intergranular Fatigue 217André PINEAU and Stephen ANTOLOVICH5.1. Introduction 2175.2. Low temperature intergranular fatigue 2215.3. High temperature fatigue 2525.4. Conclusion 2715.5. Acknowledgements 2725.6. Bibliography 272Chapter 6. Intergranular Segregation and Crystalline Material Fracture 281Anna FRACZKIEWICZ and Krzysztof WOLSKI6.1. Grain boundaries and fracture 2826.2. Intergranular segregation 2866.3. Segregation and intergranular fracture 2976.4. Intergranular fracture induced by liquid metals 3086.5. General conclusion 3206.6. Bibliography 321APPENDICES  327Appendix 1. Bicrystallography and Topological Characterization of Interfacial Defects    329Sylvie LARTIGUE-KORINEK and Louisette PRIESTERAppendix 2. Appendices of Chapter 3 333Colette REY, Denis SOLAS and Olivier FANDEURList of Authors 341Index 343