One of the most dangerous technical failures of materials is intergranular brittle fracture
(temper embrittlement) as it proceeds very quickly and its appearance is often hardly …

Physical and chemical properties of solid materials are strongly. influenced by the chemical
composition of internal interfaces, One of the crucial parameters affecting interfacial …

As the selection of material for particular engineering properties becomes increasingly
important in kee** costs down, methods for evaluating material properties also become …

Grain boundaries are important structural components of polycrystalline materials used in
the vast majority of technical applications. Because grain boundaries form a continuous …

Grain boundaries are a main feature of crystalline materials. They play a key role in
determining the properties of materials, especially when grain size decreases and even …

Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) causes sudden, costly failures of metal components across a
wide range of industries. Yet, despite over a century of research, the physical mechanisms of …

A complete classification of [100] tilt grain boundaries into the categories of special, vicinal
and general resulting from measurements of grain boundary segregation in α-iron is …

Interfacial segregation has long been studied because of its impact on various properties of
materials. Usually, theoretical descriptions are based on thermodynamic terms such as …

Internal interfaces in materials are extended defects including grain boundaries and
interphase boundaries, found in almost every natural or artificially produced material …

The influence of hydrostatic pressure up to 1.4 GPa at 905° C on the wetting of grain
boundaries in Fe-6 at.% Si and Fe-12 at.% Si bicrystals by a Zn-rich melt has been studied …