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Influence of Aluminum Grain Boundary Misorientation on Penetration by Gallium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

R. C. Hugo
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164–2920
R. G. Hoagland
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164–2920
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Materials that undergo intergranular degradation processes, such as Stress Corrosioi Cracking (SCC) or certain types of Liquid Metal Embrittlement (LME), show variations in sus ceptibility with grain boundary character Samples with high fractions of “special” boundaries i.e. highly periodic boundaries with low-S Coincidence Site Lattices (CSL), exhibit higher resis tance to these types of attack[l,2]. Very useful comparisons have been drawn between low periodicity boundaries and high-periodicity boundaries; however, few attempts have been mad to date to explain variations in behavior between various “general” boundaries. The presen study employs the LME of aluminum by liquid gallium in an attempt to elucidate the variation in structure and properties of general grain boundaries.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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