SINGLE-PROCESS THEORIES OF GRAIN BOUNDARY MIGRATION IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

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Abstract
Theoretical treatment of the mechanisms associated with thermally activated grain boundary migration requires a knowledge of the atomistic and electronic structure of the grain boundary. Although in recent years a whole range of new data has been acquired concerning the atomistic structure of grain boundaries (see for example the relevant papers presented at this colloquium) they can do no more than qualitatively extend the existing, in some cases really old, heuristic concepts of grain boundary migration mechanisms. The effect of the electronic structure on grain boundary migration has not been considered at all till now. The idea that this aspect also is of importance is rather new. In view of this, and considering that there are already a number of recent review articles on the subject of grain boundary migration [1-4], the present paper is restricted essentially to the discussion of several unanswered questions which are of general importance for a deeper theoretical understanding of grain boundary migration in very pure metals. The discussion is also restricted to large angle grain boundaries. Orientation effects will not be included because they are discussed in another of the papers to be presented

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