About cookies on this site Our websites require some cookies to function properly (required). In addition, other cookies may be used with your consent to analyze site usage, improve the user experience and for advertising. For more information, please review your options. By visiting our website, you agree to our processing of information as described in IBM’sprivacy statement. To provide a smooth navigation, your cookie preferences will be shared across the IBM web domains listed here.
Publication
Physical Review Letters
Paper
Evidence for vacancy mechanism in grain boundary diffusion in bcc iron: A molecular-dynamics study
Abstract
The dominance of vacancy migration in grain boundary self-diffusion has been established by molecular-dynamics simulation of a bcc iron =5 tilt boundary. The data yielded a reasonable value of the activation energy for migration and showed that the jump processes are highly structure dependent. The use of a temperature-dependent transition-probability matrix to describe the diffusion of the vacancies in the grain boundary is suggested. Formation of one type of boundary interstitial was observed, and the interstitial was found to be immobile during its lifetime. © 1981 The American Physical Society.