For every class of polycrystalline materials, the scientific study of grain boundaries as well as
the increasingly widespread practice of grain boundary engineering rely heavily on visual …

Raman spectroscopy represents an insightful characterization tool in electronics, which
comprehensively suits the technological needs for locally and quantitatively assessing …

This exposition consists of three parts. Part I is an introduction to classical texture analysis.
The harmonic method and the approach initiated by Roe, where the orientation distribution …

A general formulation for the disorientation angle distribution function is derived. The
derivation employs the hyperspherical harmonic expansion for orientation distributions, and …

Accurately representing the process of porosity-based ductile damage in polycrystalline
metallic materials via computational simulations remains a significant challenge. The …

With the development of three-dimensional Raman algorithms for local mapping of oxidation
and plastic strain, and the ability to resolve molecular orientation patterns with microscopic …

The crystallographic texture of metallic materials is a key microstructural feature that is
responsible for the anisotropic behavior, eg important in forming operations. In materials …

Triple junctions are recognized as important microstructural features in the context of grain
boundary network topology and grain boundary sensitive materials properties. In spite of this …

In this paper, we present an alternative method to grain growth simulations. Traditional grain
growth algorithms can be computationally expensive, especially when considering …

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing makes near-net-shaped parts with
reduced material cost and time, rising as a promising technology to fabricate Ti-6Al-4 V, a …