Abstract
Melt-free and basaltic (complex alumino-silicate) melt-bearing specimens of fine-grained polycrystalline olivine (Mg0.9Fe0.1)2SiO4, tested at high temperature and low frequency in torsional forced oscillation and microcreep, display markedly different behavior. For the melt-bearing materials, superimposed upon the high-temperature background is a dissipation peak whose height varies systematically with melt fraction that is attributed to elastically accommodated grain-boundary sliding facilitated by the rounding of grain edges at melt-filled triple junctions. The melt-free materials display only the high-temperature background dissipation associated with transient diffusional creep-elastically accommodated sliding evidently being inhibited by their tight grain-edge intersections. These and similar observations for other ceramic materials require that the classic theory of grain-boundary sliding be revisited and suitably modified.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 170-174 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Materials Science and Engineering: A |
| Volume | 442 |
| Issue number | 1-2 SPEC. ISS. |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Dec 2006 |
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