Six decades of the Hall–Petch effect – a survey of grain-size strengthening studies on pure metals
Zachary C. CorderoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USAB. KnightDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USAChristopher A. SchuhDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
2016en
ABI
Abstract
Refining a metal’s grain size can result in dramatic increases in strength, and the magnitude of this strengthening increment can be estimated using the Hall–Petch equation. Since the Hall–Petch equation was proposed, there have been many experimental studies supporting its applicability to pure metals, intermetallics and multi-phase alloys. In this article, we gather the grain-size strengthening data from the Hall–Petch studies on pure metals and use this aggregated data to calculate best estimates of these metals’ Hall–Petch parameters. We also use this aggregated data to re-evaluate the various models developed to physically support the Hall–Petch scaling.
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