Home Page for 27-750, Spring 2008,
Advanced Characterization and Microstructural Analysis
A. D. Rollett, Materials Science and Engineering
Home Page for 27-750, Spring 2008, Advanced Characterization and Microstructural Analysis
a.k.a. Texture & Anisotropy
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ADR
List of POWERPOINT (lecture) files
Please note the dates on the filenames: those with 2008 are current for the Spring Semester 2008.
I have left the files from 2006 (some of which were revised in 2007) for reference.
As I revise the lecture notes, new files will appear in the 2008 section above the line.
Spring 2008 :
- L1, Introduction
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L2, Texture Components, Euler angles, part 1
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L3, Texture Components, Euler angles, part 2 (revised 28 Jan 08)
- L4, Intro. to X-ray Pole Figures
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L5, Demo of popLA, analysis of pole figure data to produce orientation distributions
- L6, Introduction to Orientation Distributions
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L7, X-ray Diffraction, 4,6 Feb 08
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L8, Symmetry and Orientation Distributions in Euler Space, 12 Feb 08
and as a PDF
- L9 Volume Fractions, 18 Feb 08
and as a PDF
- L10 Rodrigues vectors and Quaternions (revised Feb. 08), 18 Feb 08
- L11 - Typical textures in metals (Dr. David Waryoba, 20 Feb 08)
- L12 - Grain Boundaries, Misorientation Distributions and Rodrigues vectors, 25 Feb 08
- L13 - Coincident Site Lattices (CSL) and grain boundaries, 27 Feb 08 [slides 53,54 corrected 14 Mar 08]
- 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
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L15, Anisotropy, part 1, Single Crystal Plasticity, 19 Mar 08
, also as a PDF
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L16 Anisotropy, part 2, Multi-slip Crystal Plasticity (Taylor model), 24 Mar 08
and as a PDF
- LX1, Overview of Grain Boundary Energy, 25 Mar 08 (extra lecture)
, also as a PDF
- L16B, Beverage Cans and Texture , 26 Mar 08
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L17 Anisotropy, part 3, Yield Surfaces, 31 Mar 08
and as a PDF
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LX2, Grain Boundary Properties, part 2, Mobility , 2nd extra lecture, 1 Apr 08
, also as a PDF
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L18, Introduction to LApp, Los Alamos polycrystal plasticity code, 2 Apr 08
and as a PDF
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L19, Anisotropy, part 4, Relaxed Constraints (RC) Model, 2 Apr 08
and as a PDF
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L21, Anisotropy, part 5, Anisotropic Elasticity, 14 Apr 08
and as a PDF
- LX3, 5-parameter Parameterization of Grain Boundaries , extra lecture #3, 15 Apr 08
and as a PDF
- L22, Stereology, Image Analysis, 16 Apr 08
and as a PDF
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LX4, Stereology for 5-parameter grain boundary character determination, extra lecture #4, 17 Apr 08
and as a PDF
Previous Versions of slides ...
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:
- Calculation of ODs from PFs
- 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 bcc metals, from a seminar at Tata Steel, June 07
- Typical textures in (hexagonal) metals, pt 5
- slides on SEM diffraction scanning
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EBSD Data Acquisition (Bassem El-Dasher)
- EBSD data analysis (15 Jul 06, based on lecture by Bassem El-Dasher)
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L13B_Micro_1b.ppt, Microscopy Overview, part 1b
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L14B_Micro_2a_6Mar06.ppt, Microscopy Overview, part 2a
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L15_Micro_2b_6Mar06.ppt, Microscopy Overview, part 2b
- L21_Topology_26Apr06.ppt, Topology
- L22_Herring_Eq_26Apr06.ppt, Herring Eqs.
- List of Homework (WORD) files
- Homework No. 1 [corrected 17 Jan 08], due Jan. 22nd; exercise on converting texture components as (HKL)[UVW] into other forms
- Solutions for Homework No. 1
- Homework No. 2 [v2, small correction, highlighted], due Jan. 31; exercise on calculating and plotting pole figures, inverse pole figures
- Solutions for Homework No. 2
- Homework No. 3 [v1], due Feb. 18; exercise on using popLA to analyze pole figure data
- Example of answers for Homework No. 3, courtesy of Todd Hoffman
- Homework No. 4 [v1], due 28th Feb., Calculate symmetrically related points
- Solutions for Hwk 4
- Homework No. 5 [v1], due 6th Mar., Calculate misorientations
- Solutions for Homework No. 5 , posted 27 Apr 08
- Homework No. 6, Volume fractions, updated 1 Apr 08
- Solutions for Homework No. 6 , posted 12 May 08
- Homework 7, Single Slip and Multiple Slip (single crystal) plasticity, DUE 2th Apr.
- Take-home final, due Weds, 7th May 08.
Previous homeworks from 2006 ...
- answer to Q2d, Homework No. 3, so that you can check your method
- Mid-term exam (take home), DUE 27th Feb.
- (Simulated) Grain Microstructure (TIF format) for Q1 of Homework 5
- (Simulated) Grain Microstructure (PNG format) for Q1 of Homework 5
- (Simulated) Grain Microstructure (JPG format) for Q1 of Homework 5
- Image of carbide particles in Ni alloy for Q2 of Homework 5
- Homework 6, DUE 8th Apr.
- List of course administration files
- 27-750 Syllabus for 2008, Lecture list, Presentation List
- List of WORD and PDF files
- Hwk 1: A8090_99.EPF file of pole figures from FAMU/FSU
- Hwk 1: A8090_60.EPF file of pole figures from FAMU/FSU
- EPF file of pole figures from VAW Aluminum (round robin)
- popLA Manual (PDF)
- Set of PC executables PF2PS SODCON, SOD4CON, SMOOTHSOD for plotting pole figures and Orientation Distributions
- Set of popLA executables (only the main programs) for intel Macs (must have Developer Tools installed to run)
- Source code pf2ps.f for plotting pole figures is provided here
- Source code sodcon.f for plotting Orientation Distribution is provided heres; compile with psplot.txt
- Source code sod4con.f for plotting Orientation Distributions with triclinic sample symmetry (COD only) is provided here; compile with psplot.txt
- Source code smoothsod.f for smoothing Orientation Distributions
- Go here to find the source code for psplot.txt
- Hwk 2: RAW data file, Isga.raw, of pole figures from an iron specimen
- Hwk 2: RAW data file, Isgb.raw, of pole figures from a second iron specimen
- Hwk 2: file containing defocusing and background correction information, nominally for iron
- Source code mill2mat.f as an example of a fortran-77 code for converting Miller indices to a 3x3 matrix
- Source code matmult.f as an example of a fortran-77 code for multiplying two 3x3 matrices together
- list of 20,000 random orientations - try plotting them in Euler space!
- Scanned copy of Crystal Model (II-VI)
- Scanned copy of Crystal Model (II-VI)
- MatLab program example - simple "Hello World"
- MatLab program example - how to apply crystal symmetry to an orientation, write out file
- MatLab program example - compute crystal and sample symmetry variants
- Scanned copy of paper by May & Turnbull (1958) on secondary rex in Fe-Si
- Scanned copy of paper by Hamilton (1884) on quaternions
- Scanned copy of paper by Taylor (1938) on plasticity of single crystals
- Scanned copy of paper by the Dawson group (2002) on pole figure inversion using Rodrigues space
- executable for LApp (PC) XLAPP.EXE
- executable for LApp (PC) LAPP.EXE
- "random20k.wts" file with 20,000 random orientations for use with popLA (WEIGHTS) or LApp
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