Microtexture Determination and Its Applications

by Randle, Valerie

• ISBN13: 9780901716354
• ISBN10: 0901716359
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-07-01
• Publisher: Maney Pub

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Microstructure-scale texture	p. 1
Basic aspects of microtexture determination	p. 7
Introduction	p. 7
Application Based Categorisation of Microtexture	p. 7
Overview of Techniques for Microtexture Determination	p. 9
Kikuchi Diffraction Patterns	p. 11
Microtexture Data Collection in the TEM	p. 15
Microtexture determination by electron back-scatter diffraction (1) background and general operation	p. 18
Introduction	p. 18
Development of Electron Back-Scatter Diffraction	p. 19
Specimen Preparation	p. 23
Crystal Structure Identification	p. 23
General Operation of the EBSD System	p. 30
Microtexture determination by electron back-scatter diffraction (2) data acquisition	p. 38
Introduction	p. 38
Calibration for Orientation Measurement	p. 38
Pattern Recognition and Orientation Determination	p. 46
Orientations from Non-Cubic Materials	p. 63
Effect of Strain on Pattern Quality	p. 66
Sources of Error	p. 70
Automatic Determination of Orientations	p. 71
Microtexture data processing (1) General principles	p. 74
Introduction	p. 74
The Orientation Matrix	p. 75
Parameters of Orientation	p. 78
Introduction to Grain Misorientations	p. 87
Distribution of Microtexture Components	p. 88
Microtexture data processing (2) Practical aspects	p. 92
Introduction	p. 92
Orientation Matrix Formulation from a Kikuchi Pattern	p. 93
Application of Macrotexture Presentation Methods to Microtexture	p. 102
The Rodrigues Vector and Rodrigues-Frank Space	p. 119
Orientation Imaging	p. 127
Comparisons and Combination of Measurement Techniques	p. 129
Application of microtexture to grain boundary studies	p. 134
Introduction	p. 134
Theoretical Aspects of Grain Boundary Geometry	p. 135
Mesotexture Data Processing	p. 143
Statistical and Spatial Representations of Mesotexture	p. 145
Grain Boundary Plane Normals	p. 156
Concluding remarks: outlook and applications	p. 161
References	p. 163
Index	p. 171
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