Hysteresis of grain boundary mobility due to grain boundary phase transitions.

Abstract

The paper presents experimental results of studying the motion of individual special tilt grain boundaries in the form of a half-loop with a facet. There is a deviation of temperature dependence of grain boundary mobility from Arrhenius dependence. This behavior is interpreted as a manifestation of grain boundary mobility hysteresis due to the faceting-defaceting phase transition. The values of the temperature of the faceting - defaceting phase transitions and the hysteresis parameters of grain boundary mobility were determined experimentally for the studied individual boundaries.