TEXTURE ASSESSMENT OF MAGNETICALLY PROCESSED IRON TITANATE

Untextured and highly textured iron titanate specimens were produced b y vacuum filtering iron titanate-ethanol suspensions in the absence an d presence of a strong magnetic field, respectively, Crystallographic texture was assessed by measuring X-ray pole figures on surfaces paral lel and perpendicular to the field direction for several peaks in each system, Morphological texture was assessed by measuring grain size as a function of angle to a reference direction, Results indicate that m agnetic field processing imposes a strong, fiber-type texture on the o rder of 30 times random, with the b-axis parallel to the applied field , Additionally, morphological texturing is absent for the grain sizes studied in this work.