Is there any relation between crystallite size and lattice strain with mechanical properties of the material like hardness, strength, corrosion properties etc. ??Please share some references also.
Thank you for the answer. I have already did the microstructural analysis, grain morphology, boundaries size. From literature we know about their effects on the material properties, like hardness and most importantly in my case the corrosion resistance. What I am searching to have a fitting relationship between this property of the material and the crystalitel size and lattice strain (coming only from XRD).
In our case we process the material and see effect of that process on these properties. For that we do mechanical tests and microstructural tests. I am now focusing only on xrd based analysis. We already have some changes in xrd patterns. We find changes in lattice strain and crystallite size also. Now we are heading towards its importance in terms of properties as mentioned above.
I hope now it is more clear, what we exactly searching.