Abstract
Abstract The activation energy Q for grain-boundary-dependent sliding in copper has been measured below 573 K from experiments using an electron microscope on Cu-Fe-Co alloy bicrystals with various [011] symmetric tilt boundaries. The technique utilizes the sliding-induced rotation of moire fringes in b.c.c. Fe-Co particles on grain boundaries and is capable of detecting sliding of less than 1 nm. It is concluded that grain boundaries slide in a viscous manner with inherent viscosity eta = etaoT exp(QIRT), where etao is a constant related to the boundary structure. The misorientation angle dependences of the values of Q and etao display cusps and are similar to that of the boundary energy in copper. The larger the degree of disorder in the atomic arrangement at a boundary, the lower is the boundary viscosity.
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