OPERATIONAL TEXTURE ANALYSIS

A comprehensive overview is presented of the elements that enter quantitative techniques of texture measurement, analysis and representations. There are many potential errors to be corrected and many choices to be made in all these stages, and we present those that we consider most appropriate. They have been implemented in a software package that is available publicly. A number of novel techniques are used including, for example, in the representation of measured textures, both for quantitative visual inspection and for use in the prediction of anisotropic properties. The symmetry of the test sample is allowed to be general, and that of the crystal structure may be as low as trigonal.