Grain boundaries are important structural components of polycrystalline materials used in the vast majority of technical applications. Because grain boundaries form a continuous network throughout such materials, their properties may limit their practical use. One of the serious phenomena which evoke these limitations is the grain boundary segregation of impurities. It results in the loss of grain boundary cohesion and consequently, in brittle fracture of the materials. The current book deals with fundamentals of grain boundary segregation in metallic materials and its relationship to the grain boundary structure, classification and other materials properties.
| ISBN: | 9783642264177 |
| Publication date: | 5th September 2012 |
| Author: | Pavel Lejcek |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 239 pages |
| Series: | Springer Series in Materials Science |
| Genres: |
Materials science Production and industrial engineering Management and management techniques Business mathematics and systems Engineering: general Business applications |