The Grain Boundary Data Archive: Commercially pure copper, reference and grain boundary engineered


Metadata

EBSD data

Grain Boundary line segment data

Grain Boundary Character Distribution

Grain Boundary Distribution plots and Images

Metadata

This is commercially pure copper, obtained from Integran. There are two separate specimens, a reference state and a grain boundary engineered state. The data was collected at Swansea University by M. Coleman and V. Randle. A complete description of the data can be found in the follow paper.

• V. Randle, G.S. Rohrer, H.M. Miller, M. Coleman, G.T. Owen, "Five-parameter grain boundary distribution of commercially grain boundary engineered nickel and copper," Acta Materialia, 56 (2008) 2363-2373.
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2008.01.039
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EBSD data

Download the Cu reference data to your computer. The data are in the form of .ang files. The compressed folder is 123 MB.


Download the Cu grain boundary engineered data to your computer. The data are in the form of .ang files. The compressed folder is 246 MB.


Grain Boundary line segment data

This file contains grain boundary line segments extracted from 2D data for Cu in the reference state.
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Grain Boundary Character Distribution

This file contains grain boundary character distribution computed from the line segments from the reference sample.
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Grain Boundary Distribution plots and Images



A sample image of the reference microstructure.

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The distribution of grain boundary disorientations for the Cu reference sample.



The distribution of grain boundary planes at the sigma 3 misorientation, 60° around [111].



The distribution of grain boundary planes at the sigma 9 and 27a misorientations.



The distribution of grain boundary planes at the sigma 11 and 27b misorientations.

Download the program used to calculate the disorientation distribution


Download the program used to plot the grain boundary character distribution at fixed misorientations



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