4. Estimating deformations

As we have seen, EBSD is a technique that can be used to measure crystallographic orientation and correlate it with microstructure by plotting orientation maps. It is also used to estimate elastic and plastic deformations in materials, as we shall see in the following paragraphs. . Indeed, the state of deformation in a material is usually determined by X-ray or neutron diffraction. However, in materials science, it is often important to explain the "global" response of a material to a given state of stress (or strain) in terms of mechanisms that develop at the microstructure scale (near an inclusion, a crack, an...