Home Page for 27-750, Fall 2009,
Texture, Microstructure & Anisotropy
A. D. Rollett, Materials Science and Engineering

Fall 2009 :

• L1, Introduction and as a PDF , for Aug. 25th
  
• L2, Texture Components, Euler angles, part 1, for Aug. 25th and a PDF
• L3, Texture Components, Euler angles, part 2, for Aug. 27th and a PDF
• L3B Rodrigues vectors and Quaternions by Seth Wilson, (revised Sep. 09), 1 Sept. 09
  
• lecture on x-ray pole figs by Jason Wolf, (revised Sep. 09), 3 Sept. 09
  
• L4, Intro. to X-ray Pole Figures , for Sept. 8th, and a PDF
• L5, Demo of popLA, analysis of pole figure data to produce orientation distributions , for 10 Sep. 09, with PDF
• L6, Calculation of ODs from PFs and as a PDF
• L7, Introduction to Orientation Distributions and as a PDF
• L8, Symmetry and Orientation Distributions in Euler Space, and as a PDF
  
• L9 Volume Fractions, and as a PDF
  
• Anisotropy, part 1, Anisotropic Elasticity, 29 Sep 09 (L10) and as a PDF
  
• Anisotropy, part 2, Single Crystal Plasticity, 1 Oct 09 (L11), also as a PDF
• Beverage Cans and Texture , 1 Oct 09
  
• Anisotropy, part 3, Introduction to LApp, the Los Alamos polycrystal plasticity code , 6 Oct 09
  and as a PDF
  
• Anisotropy, part 4, Multi-slip Crystal Plasticity (Taylor model), 8 Oct 09 (L13) and as a PDF
  
• Anisotropy, part 5, Yield Surfaces, 8 Oct 09 (L14) and as a PDF
  
• Anisotropy, part 6, Relaxed Constraints (RC) Model, 20 Oct 09 (L15) and as a PDF
  
• Typical textures in metals (Guest Lecture by Dr. David Waryoba, FSU-FAMU, 22 Oct 09)
• Microscopy with Electron Diffraction Overview 20 Oct 09 (L16) and as a PDF
  
• EBSD data analysis, based on lecture by Bassem El-Dasher 26 Oct 09 (L17) and as a PDF
  
• Grain Boundaries, Misorientation Distributions and Rodrigues vectors 28 Oct 09 (L18), and as a PDF
  
• Coincident Site Lattices (CSL) and grain boundaries 3/5 Nov 09 (L19) and as a PDF
  
• Stereology for 5-parameter grain boundary character determination, 10/12 Nov 09 (L20) and as a PDF
  
• Overview of Grain Boundary Energy, 17/19 Nov 09 (L21) , also as a PDF
• Intro. to Percolation, 24 Nov 09 (L22) , also as a PDF
  

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  Previous Versions of slides ...
  
• LxxA, Overview of Microscopy methods, part a
  
• LxxB, Overview of Microscopy methods, part b
  
• L14, Typical (fiber, epitaxial) textures in Thin Films , Mar 08
  , also as a PDF
• LX2, Grain Boundary Properties, part 2, Mobility , 2nd extra lecture, 1 Apr 08 , also as a PDF
• LX3, 5-parameter Parameterization of Grain Boundaries , extra lecture #3, updated Nov. 09 and as a PDF
  
• L22, Stereology, Image Analysis, 16 Apr 08 and as a PDF
  
  

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  Foundational material (mostly math):
  
• Points, Vectors, Transformations, Rotations (revised Jan 08)
  
• Introduction to Group Theory, (Gruber, 5 Mar 07)
• Introduction to Quaternions, (Gruber, 7 Mar 07)
  
• Misorientations, Symmetry, and how to calculate them (updated June 07); the lecture on Volume Fractions has much of the same material
  
  Slides of lectures in standard order:
  
• Typical textures in (fcc) metals, pt 1
• Typical textures in metals (recrystallization, composites, welding), pt 2
• Typical textures in metals (torsion), pt 3
• Typical textures in (hexagonal) metals, pt 5
• Typical textures in bcc metals, from a seminar at Tata Steel, June 07
• slides on SEM diffraction scanning
• EBSD Data Acquisition (Bassem El-Dasher) also as a , PDF
• Micro_1b.ppt, Microscopy Overview, part 1b
• Micro_2b_6Mar06.ppt, Microscopy Overview, part 2b
• Topology_26Apr06.ppt, Topology
• Herring_Eq_26Apr06.ppt, Herring Eqs.