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Grain boundary sliding and stress concentration during creep

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Importance of grain boundary sliding to creep intergranular fracture is focussed. Previous metallographic and fractographic studies of creep intergranular fracture on metal bicrystals and polycrystals are briefly reviewed in order to show the close relationship between grain boundary sliding and fracture. Deformation ledge and migration irregularity are shown to be potential sites of stress concentration and crack nucleation on sliding grain boundaries without particles. The effect of grain boundary structure on creep intergranular fracture is discussed on the basis of the effect of grain boundary structure on sliding, the contribution of sliding to the overall creep deformation, and a sliding-fracture diagram. Recent observations of the effect of grain boundary structure on creep intergranular fracture on alpha iron-tin alloy polycrystals are shown.

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This paper is based on a presentation made at the symposium “The Role of Trace Elements and Interfaces in Creep Failure” held at the annual meeting of The Metallurgical Society of AIME, Dallas, Texas, February 14-18, 1982, under the sponsorship of The Mechanical Metallurgy Committee of TMS-AIME.

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Watanabe, T. Grain boundary sliding and stress concentration during creep. Metall Trans A 14, 531–545 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02643771

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