Influence of phosphorus on the texture of grain boundaries in iron

Abstract

Grain boundaries play an important role in most properties of materials. This role is strongly dependent on the crystallography and on the purity of the grain boundary, these two factors being correlated. It is thus necessary to establish the grain-boundary character distribution in a polycrystal to understand the grain-boundary contribution to an overall property. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of phosphorus on the distributions of the grain-boundary misorientations and inclinations in iron, which we refer to as grain-boundary texture.