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Basics of EBSD

EBSD Experiments

Undertaking Experiments

Sample Preparation

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Point Analysis
Crystal Orientation Mapping
Pattern Quality Maps
Grains
Texture
Phase discrimination
Summary

Types of EBSD experiment

Phase discrimination

EBSD can be used to discriminate crystallographically dissimilar phases by comparing the interplanar angles measured from the diffraction pattern, with calculated angles from a set of candidate phases and selecting the best fit.   Figure 8 shows the separation of the austenite and ferrite phases in a duplex stainless steel.  Austenite is face centered cubic, and ferrite is body centered cubic, and the phases can not be distinguished by X-ray microanalysis.   The phase map shows that 38.6% of the sampled area is ferrite and 60.7% is austenite.  The crystal orientation maps also reveal the constituent grains in the two phases.

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