Grain growth is a process of boundary motion by curvature to minimize the total free energy. The grain boundaries are created and/or eliminated during grain growth.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1359-6454(99)00405-X
Acta Materialia 2000;48:1297
http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2001.0291
Journal of Materials Research 2001;16:2136
This is cool. It kind of seems to work in a way of osmosis and creation of cells. grain boundaries expand depending to the type of atom composition and their internal grain stress.
arktikgraywolf 6 days ago
Excuse my ignorance, but what ideally happens to the grains that seems to disappear, are their structures deformed in the heat and take part of the bigger ones?, is this a metal?
modkva 11 months ago
I liked this!
newcomer9747 1 year ago
gnarly. what if there are immobile second phase particles....
sickmellon 2 years ago