Electron backscatter diffraction investigation of local misorientations and orientation gradients in connection with evolution of grain boundary structures in deformed and annealed zirconium. A new approach in grain boundary analysis

The evolution of local misorientations, orientation gradients and grain boundary distribution during thermomechanical processing of zirconium samples is studied using the electron backscatter diffraction technique, kernel average misorientation and grain orientation spread statistics, and the proposed novel approach of grain boundary analysis.