Modelling Interface Diffusion Creep: Single Phase Insights and Two Phase Challenges

Article Preview

Abstract:

Numerical and analytic models for diffusion creep have commercial and geological uses. For single phase polycrystals, numerical models of interface diffusion creep illustrate how grains rotate and what the relative contributions of grain shape change and grain boundary sliding are to the overall strain. In particular they shows that an equi-axed starting material will initially show large grain angular velocities but that these slow down as grain become slightly elongate. A steady state microstructure with some grain elongation and little or no grain rotation is reached. Consequently the equi-axed grain shapes seen in superplastic deformation require additional processes for a full explanation. For two phase aggregates, the mathematical framework cannot be simply extended it breaks down as the system becomes mathematically overdetermined. Further work is required to solve this problem. If the second phase is insoluble, the mathematics can, though, be extended successfully, paving the way for models of diffusion creep with insoluble second phase particles.

You might also be interested in these eBooks

Info:

Periodical:

Materials Science Forum (Volumes 715-716)

Pages:

983-987

Citation:

Online since:

April 2012

Export:

Price:

[1] J. Wheeler, Journal of Geophysical Research 97, (1992), 4579-4586.

Google Scholar

[2] J.M. Ford, J. Wheeler and A.B. Movchan, Acta Materialia 50, (2002), 3941-3955.

Google Scholar

[3] J.M. Ford and J. Wheeler, Acta Materialia 52, (2004), 2365-2376.

Google Scholar

[4] J.R. Berton, D.W. Durney, J. Wheeler and J.M. Ford, Tectonophysics 425, (2006), 191-205.

DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.08.002

Google Scholar

[5] J. Wheeler and J.M. Ford, in: Microdynamic simulation – From microprocess to patterns in rocks, P.D. Bons, M. Jessell and D. Koehn, eds., Lecture Notes in Earth Science, pp. (2007), 161-169, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-44793-1_3

Google Scholar

[6] J. Wheeler, Geophysical Journal International 178, (2009), 1723-1732.

Google Scholar

[7] J. Wheeler, Philosophical Magazine, (2010), 2841-2864.

Google Scholar

[8] R.L. Coble, Journal of Applied Physics 34, (1963), 1679-1682.

Google Scholar

[9] I.W. Chen, Acta Metallurgica 30, (1982), 1655-1664.

Google Scholar

[10] J. Wheeler, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 97, (1987), 397-404.

Google Scholar

[11] S.P.A. Gill, Acta Materialia 53, (2005), 3737-3749.

Google Scholar