Book description
This book explores the fundamental role of grain boundaries in the
plasticity of crystalline materials, providing a multi-scale approach to
plasticity to facilitate understanding. It starts with the atomic
description of a grain boundary, moves on to the elemental interaction
processes between dislocations and grain boundaries, and finally shows
how the microscopic phenomena influence the macroscopic behaviors and
constitutive laws. Drawing on topics from physical, chemical, and
mechanical disciplines, this work also explains properties of
deformation at low and high temperature, creep, fatigue, and rupture.
