PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF CALCULATING THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF POLYCRYSTALS FROM THE TEXTURE ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT MODELS

The prediction of elastic properties from different models requires numerical calculations, notably integrations of the products of functions respectively representing the elastic property and describing the texture information. After a brief description of the different models used, this paper gives some advice on the calculation of elastic properties with averaging-type models and discusses the conditions of good convergency in the case of a self-consistent approach.