Recoverable creep deformation and transient local stress concentration due to heterogeneous grain-boundary diffusion and sliding in polycrystalline solids

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1460-1483

  Wei, Yujie ^a   Bower, Allan F ^a   Gao, Huajian ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Grain boundary diffusion; Grain boundary sliding; Recoverable creep deformation; Transient stress concentration

Indexed keywords

CREEP; DIFFUSION; GRAIN BOUNDARY SLIDING; SURFACE RESISTANCE; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

GRAIN BOUNDARY DIFFUSION; POLYCRYSTALLINE SOLIDS; RECOVERABLE CREEP DEFORMATION; SLIDING RESISTANCE;

POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 40849121059     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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