Computational study on grain growth in cemented carbides

Grain and phase boundary segregation in WC–Co with small V, Cr or Mn additions

“…Grain growth is also believed to occur by grain boundary migration [2]. For a constant binder phase fraction a fine grained cemented carbide is harder than a coarse grained one [3].…”

Computational Design for Grain‐Oriented Microstructure of Functional Ceramics Prepared by Templated Grain Growth

“…In contrast, it is expected that microstructural design through computation is effective for rapid optimization of the parameters. Indeed, Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of grain growth based on the Potts model 13 was shown to express well the experimental results of the sintering and grain growth behaviors 14–17 . Furthermore, in a previous report, 18 our calculation model for the TGG process under isotropic grain growth served as a guideline for the selection of initial parameters to obtain a ceramic having both a large fraction of oriented grains and a high density.…”

Monte Carlo Simulation of Densification during Liquid-Phase Sintering

“…They studied the effects of temperature and liquid content on grain growth rate and grain size distribution. [3][4][5][6] Matsubara and coworkers [7][8][9] made similar studies. However, they omitted the steps in which solid particles diffuse into a liquid and, instead, they moved the solid particles to other grains as soon as those particles left the old ones.…”