Overview: In view of the dramatically increased interest in the study of grain boundaries during the past few years, the Physical Metal- lurgy Committee of The Institute of Metals Division of The Metal- lurgical Society, AIME, sponsored a four-session symposium on the NATURE AND BEHAVIOR OF GRAIN BOUNDARIES, at the TMS-AIME Fall Meeting in Detroit, Michigan, October 18-19, 1971. The main ob- jectives of this symposium were to examine the more recent develop- ments, theoretical and experimental, in our understanding of grain boundaries, and to stimulate further studies in these and related area
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