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Grain Boundary Premelting in Binary Alloys Using the Phase-Field Crystal Method. Elizabeth Rowan. Supervisor: Nikolas Provatas. Outline. Interfacial Thermodynamics What is Premelting ? Premelting at Grain Boundaries (GB) Disjoining Potential Phase-field Crystal Method (PFC)
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Grain Boundary Premelting in Binary AlloysUsing the Phase-Field Crystal Method Elizabeth Rowan Supervisor: Nikolas Provatas
Outline • Interfacial Thermodynamics • What is Premelting? • Premelting at Grain Boundaries (GB) • Disjoining Potential • Phase-field Crystal Method (PFC) • Comparison to other models • Origin of Properties • My Research • Binary Alloys • Future Work
Premelting: The Basics • ϒSA>ϒLA+ϒLS • If true, liquid film is thermodynamically stablebelowTm ϒLA Air h ϒLS Liquid Solid Courtesy of M. Gallerneault (2012)
Premelting: Grain Boundaries Applications: Hot Tearing Solid h Liquid Solid A.M. Alsayedet al. Science 19 August 2005 Mellenthin et al. PRB 78 (2008) S.J. Fensin et al. PRE 81 (2010)
Disjoining Potential, V(h) Gexc(h,T)=ΔG(T)h + 2γSL+V(h) Increasing temperature equilibrium width Courtesy of T. Power
Disjoining Potential – Function of Misorientation Repulsive Boundary as T goes to Tm,h goes to ∞ Attractive Boundary “dry” Attractive-Repulsive h S.J. Fensin et al. PRE 81 (2010)
Crystal Liquid (nm) Vibrating on it’s lattice site Discrete Atoms Number Density Position Courtesy of M. Greenwood Position
Phase-Field Crystal Model Greenwood et al. PRL 105 (2010) Courtesy of M. Greenwood
Adapted from Elder et al. PRE 81 (2010) L α+L α Solidus Liquidus Temperature(rescaled) α1 α2 α1+α2 Number density =ρA-ρB /(ρA+ρB)
My Work: Comparison of Misorientations Low Angle Grain Boundary: 6° Low γGB High Angle Grain Boundary: 32.2° High γGB My Goal: Premelting in binary alloys
Low Angle Premelting Concentration -0.1475 Concentration -0.18 Concentration -0.1425 Concentration -0.155 Overheating Concentration -0.1425 Concentration -0.15 Concentration -0.115
High Angle Premelting: 27.8° Concentration -0.17 Concentration -0.1525 Concentration -0.1425 Concentration -0.1475
Next Steps • Investigate the role of solute inpremelting: • Plot disjoining potential curves for several misorientations for alloys • Compare disjoining potential for alloys to that of the pure material • ActaMaterialia 57 (2009) Mishin et al. ActaMaterialia 57 (2009)
Acknowledgements • A tremendous thank you to Dr. NikProvatas and Dr. Jeff Hoyt • Jonathan Stolle • and all the people who were so very supportive!