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This volume summarizes the most important results of the ongoing research in the Center of Excellence on Applied Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Miskolc, Hungary. The primary goal of the research activities is the extension of the knowledge available for materials exhibiting special properties.

Texture and Anisotropy of Polycrystals III

Edited by: H. Klein and R.A. Schwarzer

Online since: February 2010

Description: The great majority of solid-state materials – natural as well as man-made ones – have a polycrystalline structure. They consist of crystallites having various sizes, shapes and crystallographic orientations. Because of the anisotropy of crystal properties, the material as a whole may also be anisotropic if the orientation distribution of the crystallites is not random. Furthermore, because of the differently oriented anisotropies of neighbouring crystals, the material is also micro-inhomogeneous. Macroscopic anisotropy and micro-inhomogeneity are thus fundamental properties of all polycrystalline materials. Therefore, the study of preferred crystal orientations, or crystallographic texture, is of major interest in research and industrial applications. Analysis of the crystal texture is now a well-established tool for quality control and failure analysis in industry, as well as in academic research, because of the ready availability of commercial equipment and refined computer programs.