Misorientation Distribution Function of Crystals

Abstract

When studying the structure of polycrystalline materials, the misorientation distribution function (MDF) is of great practical interest. In this paper we obtain preliminary calculated data on the MDF taking into account the position of the main maxima of the experimental orientation distribution functions (ODF) for recrystallized iron, rolled materials with a copper, silver, α-Fe, and brass texture, and also α-Zr based on direct pole figures of the rolled sample. It is shown that the proportion of brass rotations close to special is the largest, and amounts to 50%. The region of minimum rotations in the Euler space for cubic and hexagonal crystals is calculated.

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