Advanced Experimental Techniques in X-Ray Texture Analysis

High energy X-ray scattering tomography applied to bone

“…Synthesis of data from several reflections and many specimen orientations into the position-resolved orientation distribution function (odf) would be a rigorous extension (of the scattering method described in this paper) to quantitative texture analysis. For details of odf computation, the reader is directed elsewhere (Bunge, 1986;Bunge and Esling, 1986).…”

“…Many of the techniques are covered in standard materials texts (e.g., Cullity and Stock, 2001). Quantitative texture analyses from scattering data are a staple in the materials processing literature, and monographs detailing experimental methods and numerical analyses include Bunge (1986) and Bunge and Esling (1986). High energy synchrotron X-radiation (E > 40 keV) has added capability for noninvasive, spatiallyresolved strain and texture mapping of bulk specimens (Almer et al, 2003).…”

Texture and Anisotropy

“…With advances in image analysis, shape preferred orientation can be determined quantitatively and automatically with stereological techniques. Optical methods of LPO measurements of some minerals have also been automated Pauli 1993, Stöckhert andDuyster 1999) Today diffraction techniques are most widely used to measure lattice preferred orientation (see e.g., Bunge 1986, Snyder et al 1999, Wenk 2000. X-ray diffraction with a pole figure goniometer is a routine method.…”

Diffraction Profile Pole Figures Measured with a Position Sensitive Detector

“…The majority of all experimental texture studies is carried out by means of polycrystal diffraction and is based on the measurement of pole density distributions (pole figures), followed by the calculation of the orientation distribution function ODF of crystallites (Bunge, 1982). Pole figures are defined by the integral intensifies of Bragg reflections (hkl) depending on the orientation of the diffraction vector relative to the sample coordinate system.…”