DETERMINATION OF THE ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION FROM ISOLATED AXIS DENSITY VALUES.

Abstract

Recently energy dispersive x-ray and neutron diffraction methods have been developed and their application to texture analysis has been proposed. These methods allow the determination of pole-density values at the same point of a great number of pole figures simultaneously. It is desirable to employ a method which does not use integration. A method of this type can be obtained if one does not postulate a least-squares-fit between an experimental and a theoretical function, leading to integration, but rather a least-squares-fit of the theoretical function to isolated experimental values.