“…Although the method soon found widespread application in imperfection studies of single crystals, it was not until 1951 that DCD was first employed to investigate the lattice defects in polycrystalline materials (Reis, Slade & Weissmann, 1951). Subsequently, DCD has been successfully used over the past few decades to study minute changes in the defect structure of polycrystalline metallic samples (Slade & Weissmann, 1952;Intrater & Weissmann, 1954;Weissmann, 1961;Garofalo, Zwell, Keh & Weissmann, 1961;Weissmann, Imura & Hosokawa, 1963;Hida & Weissmann, 1975;Weissmann, Yazici, Takemoto, Tsakalakos & Kramer, 1979;Takemoto, Weissmann & Kramer, 1980;Pangborn, Weissmann & Kramer, 1981). The method is particularly useful when the amount of deformation is not too excessive and when the substructure of the material can be related to its properties.…”