Special Issue "Grain Growth in Metals and Alloys"
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2023 | Viewed by 161
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pattern formation in materials and soft matters; surfaces and interfaces at the nanoscale; crystal morphology; microstructural evolution; atomistic continuum modelling of materials
Interests: phase field modelling; materials thermodynamics and mechanics; phase transformations; atomistic and continuum modelling of microstructural evolution; phase transformation and deformation induced microstructures
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Studies of grain growth are of interest from both fundamental and applied points of view. It is no wonder that grain growth is an active area of study for more than seven decades. More importantly, in recent years, there have been several important developments in both experimental and modeling studies of grain growth and associated phenomena (such as recrystallization). The aim of this special volume is to review/overview some of these recent developments as well as place them in perspective and context. In addition to such reviews/overviews, we also welcome technical research papers that describe new methodologies, techniques, and results broadly in the area of grain growth and associated phenomena in metallic systems.
We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to this issue, whose topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Grain growth in metals and alloys;
- Grain growth in thin films;
- Grain boundary engineering;
- Stress-induced grain growth;
- Recrystallization—static and dynamic;
- Grain boundary sliding, grain rotation and associated phenomena;
- Abnormal grain growth and particle pinning effects on grain growth;
- Effect of energy and kinetic anisotropy on grain growth;
- Modeling grain growth—Q-state Potts, Molecular Dynamics (MD), Cellular Automaton (CA), Phase Field (PF), Phase Field Crystal (PFC) and other continuum models.
Prof. Kuo-An Wu
Prof. M P Gururajan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Grain growth
- Grain boundary sliding
- Grain rotation
- Grain boundary engineering
- Abnormal grain growth
- Particle pinning
- Static recrystallization
- Dynamic recrystallization
- Thin films
- Stress-assisted grain growth
- Modelling and simulation
