A systematic scheme was developed for identifying and distinguishing individual grain boundaries from one another according to their misorientation and inclination in polycrystalline materials. This permitted the construction of a grain-boundary energy database in a suitable form for implementation in mesoscale grain growth simulations. The scheme could also be applied to identifying the interfaces between two different phase grains, and permitted realistic simulations to be made of phase transformations as well as of grain growth; assigning real crystallographic orientations to individual grains.

An Identification Scheme of Grain Boundaries and Construction of a Grain Boundary Energy Database. H.K.Kim, W.S.Ko, H.J.Lee, S.G.Kim, B.J.Lee: Scripta Materialia, 2011, 64[12], 1152-5