A survey of ab-initio calculations shows that segregation-induced grain boundary embrittlement is predicted by bond-breaking arguments

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• 作者：Michael A. Gibson¹ ; ^{m_gibson@mit.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Christopher A. Schuh ; ^{schuh@mit.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Grain boundary segregation ; Embrittlement ; Ab-initio calculation ; Surface segregation ; Fracture
• 刊名：Scripta Materialia
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：1 March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：113
• 期：Complete
• 页码：55-58
• 全文大小：396 K

文摘

The segregation of solute atoms to grain boundaries can have a large influence on the mechanical behavior of polycrystals, particularly in metallic alloys. An overview of 400 calculations of solute-induced changes in grain boundary cohesion from 81 separate studies quantitatively demonstrates that the majority of the variation in solute-induced changes in boundary cohesion is explained by simple bond-breaking arguments. This trend is robust to changes in crystal structure and computational methods. The secondary contributions to embrittlement from other mechanisms, such as atomic size effects and charge transfer, are quantified and discussed as well.