Which mechanism causes reduced tensile strength near lattice grain boundaries?

💡 Explanation

Dislocation pile-up concentrations at grain boundaries cause stress intensification because the dislocations cannot move past this point, therefore strength decreases locally, rather than a change in either vacancy diffusion or fracture mode.

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