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Remembering my materials lectures from years ago....
Basically any metal has crystal structures in it and where these meet is where you have potential weakness points. By heating in the correct way it is possible to make single crystal components but I believe this is only used in the aircraft industry ... I forget the correct terminology and Pifko has my materials book.