kth.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Impurity effects on the grain boundary cohesion in copper
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Materials Science and Engineering.
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Materials Science and Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9920-5393
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Materials Science and Engineering.
2017 (English)In: Physical Review Materials, E-ISSN 2475-9953, Vol. 1, no 7, article id 070602Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Segregated impurities at grain boundaries can dramatically change the mechanical behavior of metals, while the mechanism is still obscure in some cases. Here, we suggest a unified approach to investigate segregation and its effects on the mechanical properties of polycrystalline alloys using the example of 3sp impurities (Mg, Al, Si, P, or S) at a special type Sigma 5(310)[001] tilt grain boundary in Cu. We show that for these impurities segregating to the grain boundary, the strain contribution to the work of grain boundary decohesion is small and that the chemical contribution correlates with the electronegativity difference between Cu and the impurity. The strain contribution to the work of dislocation emission is calculated to be negative, while the chemical contribution is calculated to be always positive. Both the strain and chemical contributions to the work of dislocation emission generally become weaker with the increasing electronegativity from Mg to S. By combining these contributions together, we find, in agreement with experimental observations, that a strong segregation of S can reduce the work of grain boundary separation below the work of dislocation emission, thus embrittling Cu, while such an embrittlement cannot be produced by a P segregation because it lowers the energy barrier for dislocation emission relatively more than for work separation.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Physical Society, 2017. Vol. 1, no 7, article id 070602
National Category
Metallurgy and Metallic Materials
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-221014DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.070602ISI: 000418772500001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85049393345OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-221014DiVA, id: diva2:1173901
Funder
Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company, SKBSwedish Foundation for Strategic Research
Note

QC 20180115

Available from: 2018-01-15 Created: 2018-01-15 Last updated: 2024-03-15Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Li, YunguoKorzhavyi, Pavel A.Sandström, Rolf

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Li, YunguoKorzhavyi, Pavel A.Sandström, Rolf
By organisation
Materials Science and Engineering
In the same journal
Physical Review Materials
Metallurgy and Metallic Materials

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 122 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf