Anisotropy of Interfacial Energy in Five Dimensions
Abstract
Anisotropy of interfacial energy is the principal driving force for material microstructure evolution yet its origins remain uncertain and a quantitative description lacking. We present and justify a concise hypothesis on the topography and topology of the functional space of grain boundary energies and, based on this hypothesis, construct a closed-form function that quantitatively describes energy variations in the entire 5-space of macroscopic parameters defining grain boundary geometry. The new function is found to be universal for the crystallography class of face-centered cubic metals.
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