How does the grain size affect the strength of a material?
The larger grain has a total surface area of 2 x (2 x 4) + 2 x (2 x 3) + 2 x (3 x 4) = 52 square units. The smaller grain has a surface area of 6 x (1×1) = 6 square units. The surface area represents the amount of grain boundary in this instance. For every dislocation in the large grain, there is 52/144 = 0.36 square units of grain boundary ...