Selected values of high-angle grain-boundary energies

3 Selected values of high-angle grain-boundary energies 

Selected values of the surface energies of solids were presented in Table 2.2. Table 4.4 presents selected values of the energies of high-angle grain boundaries. 

In this chapter the consequences of the orientation-dependent surface energies for crystalline sohds have been described. The effects on equilibrium crystal shape and the thermodynamics of grain-boundary behavior and faceting have been used as examples. Two common techniques for measuring y for solid surfaces, namely zero creep and multiphase equilibrium, have been described. 

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