A New Perspective on Texture Evolution

Abstract

Modeling and analysis of texture evolution in polycrystalline materials is a major challenge in materials science. It requires understanding grain boundary or interface evolution at the network level, where topological reconfigurations (critical events) play an important role. In this paper, we investigate grain boundary evolution in a simplified one-dimensional system designed specifically to target microstructural critical event, evolution. We suggest a stochastic framework that may be used to model this system and compare predictions of the model with simulations. We discuss limitations and possible extensions of this approach to higher-dimensional cases.