en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GranularityPrivate View Granularity. Granularity (also called graininess) is the degree to which a material or system is composed of distinguishable pieces, "granules" or "grains" (metaphorically). It can either refer to the extent to which a larger entity is subdivided, or the extent to which groups of smaller indistinguishable entities have joined together to become ...
Ultrafine-Grained Materials | SpringerLink link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-80359-9_17Private View The common grain size of the metals in the industry is >10 μm and are called coarse-grained materials [ 16 ]. Fine-grained metals that are processed using industrial thermomechanical processing have a grain size of ∼1–10 μm. It is hard to achieve a metal with grain size <1 μm (called ultrafine grained) or <100 nm (called nanograined ...