The present study aims to understand the evolution of textural and microstructural heterogeneity and its effect on evolution of mechanical properties of an equiatomic FCC CoCuFeMnNi high entropy alloy (HEA) disc subjected to high pressure torsion (HPT). HPT was performed on disc specimen with a hydrostatic pressure of 5 GPa for 0.1, 0.5, 1 and 5 turns at room temperature diffraction analysis shows decrease in crystalline size with simultaneous increase in dislocation density for five-turn HPT sample with increasing strain from centre to the periphery of the disc.Microstructural analysis using electron back scatter diffraction and transmission electron microscopy indicates extensive grain fragmentation (≈ 55 nm at the periphery of five-turn sample). The evolution of hardness from centre to the periphery of the disc cannot be explained only on the basis of evolution of grain size and dislocation density. The increase in contribution from solid solution strengthening due to partial dissolution of copper rich nano-clusters is expected to be the underlying cause for increase in the hardness. Thus, evolution of gradient microstructure, texture, and chemistry opens up new vistas for designing functionally graded materials for engineering materials.

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Residual stress determination in engineering components from diffraction strain measurements needs reliable diffraction elastic constants (DECs). From this sense, in situ uniaxial tensile loading experiment was performed on alpha titanium alloy Ti-2.5Cu at the HEMS beamline at DESY by means of a monochromatic synchrotron X-ray diffraction. A comparison between measured (polycrystal) and calculated (single crystal) DECs using for example Kröner model was presented and discussed. The results revealed that the measured DECs slightly differ from the calculated ones. Furthermore, changes in the lattice parameters a and c as well as c/a ratio during tensile loading were also investigated.

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The handling of larger samples for texture studies is limited when we using the Eulerian cradle. The robot Stäubli RX160 installed at STRESS‐SPEC offers much more freedom in sample manipulation on one hand to perform pole figure scanning and on the other hand to position the sample for a texture mapping. A key problem is that slit systems cannot be positioned close to large samples due to safety reasons which makes corrections more important. A very simple solution was tested to correct the scattered intensity for each pole figure point for constant volume and anisotropic absorption. A simple method to make these corrections is needed because engineering samples such as semi‐finished products have a large variety of shapes and weights and an ideal slit system is only seldomly available. The test sample was a Cu‐tube of 140 mm in diameter with an average wall thickness of 10 mm. To compare the corrections three kind of samples were measured, first a cube of 10 × 10 × 11 mm³ without any correction, second an 11 mm long tube segment and third a tube segment of 250 mm (12 kg weight) in length. Orientation Distribution Function (ODF) analysis of the average texture over the tube wall by the iterative series expansion method has shown that sufficient intensity corrections can be done to describe the texture gradient around the circumference of the Cu‐tube related to low ovality and eccentricity of the Cu‐tube.