THE APPLICATION OF ORIENTATION IMAGING MICROSCOPY

From the necessity to obtain large data sets on the statistics of plac ement of lattice orientation (and phase) in polycrystals, there has em erged a powerful new form of microscopy. Orientation imaging microscop y consolidates ordinary views of the morphological aspects of the micr ostructure with knowledge of the local lattice orientation. Such detai led information enables the investigator to ask new questions about th e microstructures of metal and ceramic alloys. The answers can be chal lenging.