Materials Science Forum, Vol.467-470, 751-756, 2004
Impact of boundary orientation on the motion of curved grain boundaries in aluminum bicrystals.
The motion of <111> tilt and mixed tilt-twist grain boundaries with misorientation angles in the range between 34degrees and 42degrees in pure Al bicrystals was measured over the temperature range between 310 and 610degreesC. The experiments revealed that the change of the set of boundary planes in the curved moving tilt boundary does not affect its motion. The shape of the curved moving part of the mixed tilt-twist boundary was measured and compared with analytically calculated boundary shape. The results have shown that an increase of the twist component along the curved mixed boundary in studied geometrical configuration does not affect its steady-state motion. Similar to the behaviour of <111> pure tilt boundaries, the mobility of <111> mixed tilt-twist grain boundaries in the vicinity of special misorientation Sigma7 depends on the misorientation angle in a non-monotonic fashion.