scholarly journals A Test of the Refinement Procedure for Determining the Crystallite Orientation Distribution: Polyethylene Terephthalate

Texture ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. R. Krigbaum ◽  
Anna Marie Harkins Vasek
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Polyethylene Terephthalate ◽  
Orientation Distribution Function ◽  
Orientation Distribution ◽  
Fiber Texture ◽  
Fiber Axis ◽  
Crystallite Orientation ◽  
Plane Normal ◽  
Pole Figures ◽  
Refinement Procedure

A test of the refinement procedure for improving the crystallite orientation distribution function is presented for a fiber texture sample of polyethylene terephthalate. This is a particularly difficult example because the triclinic unit cell offers no simplification due to symmetry, and the pole figures are sharply peaked. The analysis employed 17 observed pole figures and an additional 29 unobserved pole figures reconstructed from the crystallite orientation distribution function. After three cycles of refinement, in which the maximum value of the coefficient was increased from 6 to 16, the standard deviations, σq and σw, of the plane-normal and crystallite orientation distributions were reduced by about a factor of 3. The refined crystallite orientation distribution function indicates that the c-axis tends to align along the fiber axis for this polyethylene terephthalate sample.

A software for diffraction stress factor calculations for textured materials

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Gnäupel-Herold
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Pole Figure ◽  
Elastic Constants ◽  
Orientation Distribution Function ◽  
Lattice Strain ◽  
Orientation Distribution ◽  
Crystallite Orientation ◽  
Interaction Models ◽  
Grain Interaction ◽  
Textured Materials

A software for the calculation of diffraction elastic constants (DEC) for materials both with and without preferred orientation was developed. All grain-interaction models that can use the crystallite orientation distribution function (ODF) are incorporated, including Kröner, Hill, inverse Kröner, and Reuss. The functions of the software include: reading the ODF in common textual formats, pole figure calculation, calculation of DEC for different (hkl,φ,ψ), calculation of anisotropic bulk constants from the ODF, calculation of macro-stress from lattice strain and vice versa, as well as mixture ratios of (hkl) of overlapped reflections in textured materials.

scholarly journals Texture Analysis of a Zinc Layer on a Steel Substrate Using Neutron Diffraction

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
H.-G. Brokmeier
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Neutron Diffraction ◽  
Texture Analysis ◽  
Orientation Distribution Function ◽  
Steel Substrate ◽  
Orientation Distribution ◽  
Pole Figures ◽  
Iron And Zinc

This paper describes the application of neutron diffraction to investigate the texture of a zinc layer 8 μm in thickness. In a nondestructive way both the texture of the zinc layer as well as the texture of the steel substrate were studied. Therefore, pole figures of iron ((110), (200) and (211)) and of zinc ((0002), (101¯0), (101¯1); and (101¯3)/(112¯0)) were measured; additionally the orientation distribution function of iron and zinc were calculated.

A New Method for Orientation Distribution Function Analysis

1985 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 443-449
Author(s):  
Munetsugu Matsuo ◽  
Koichi Kawasaki ◽  
Tetsuya Sugai
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Spherical Harmonics ◽  
Orientation Distribution Function ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Orientation Distribution ◽  
Symmetry Operation ◽  
Composite Function ◽  
Odd Order ◽  
Pole Figures ◽  
Generalized Spherical Harmonics

AbstractAs a means for quantitative texture analysis, the crystallite orientation distribution function analysis has an important drawback: to bring ghosts as a consequence of the presence of a non-trivial kernel which consists of the spherical harmonics of odd order terms. In the spherical hamonic analysis, ghosts occur in the particular orientations by symmetry operation from the real orientation in accordance with the symmetry of the harmonics of even orders. For recovery of the odd order harmonics, the 9th-order generalized spherical harmonics are linearly combined and added to the orientation distribution function reconstructed from pole figures to a composite function. The coefficients of the linear combination are optimized to minimize the sum of negative values in the composite function. Reproducibility was simulated by using artificial pole figures of single or multiple component textures. Elimination of the ghosts is accompanied by increase in the height of real peak in the composite function of a single preferred orientation. Relative fractions of both major and minor textural components are reproduced with satisfactory fidelity In the simulation for analysis of multi-component textures.

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