In Materials engineering the main goal is to understand and define connections between structure and properties of materials. In polycrystalline materials many of the material's attributes depend on the border between different orientated crystal grains. In this diploma work, I made several computer simulations. I simulated growth of the embedded grains using the PFC method. I observed the changing of the free energy and the surface energy of the simulated surface in co-dependance with the rotation of the grain in the matrix. In the same time I observed the creation of dislocations, the numbers of them and their positioning. I did simulations on two different grain radius. I determined that the number of dislocations is proportional to the rotation of the grain. On the other hand, the surface energy of the simulated surface increased with the rotation of the grain, and was larger when a smaller grain radius was used.
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