Tenth Interactive Lecture TSUKUBA CHAPTER

For Scientific Exchange and Friendship….                          

ISAJ TSUKUBA CHAPTER 

Organizes an informal and interactive series of lectures 

Crystallographic Texture:  Evolution and Implication

Venue - Ninomiya House

Lecture Hall

1st Floor


February 2, 2013 (Saturday), 5:00 pm ~

Speaker – Dr. K. S. Suresh

High Temperature Materials Unit

National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS)

Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8505, Japan

Crystallographic texture is the preferred orientation of grains in material.  Since many of the properties are orientation dependent, control of texture leads to tailor specific material properties.  Texture can be engineered by employing different processing like, solidification, deformation, annealing, and phase transformation.  Basic understanding of the evolution of texture has led to solve problems in many engineering applications, like deep drawing of metals and alloys, controlling electrical loss in transformers.  Contemporary research activities include application of texture to control electro migration in interconnects, to increase the bio-compatibility of implants, and synthesis of textured substrates for high performance superconductors.  In this seminar, I will discuss about the evolution of texture during different processing, its representation, measurement and significance to specific structural and functional properties of crystalline materials.

For details contact: Sunil Kaul  (kaul4kaul@gmail.com)