ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 introduced the common techniques used to determine macrotextures experimentally by means of x-ray and neutron diffraction. The direct output of such texture measurements is the re ected intensity in the form of two pole gure angles α and β, that is, the distribution of the poles in the traditional pole fi gure. Hence the pole gure is the obvious choice for a critical assessment of experimental texture results. This method is discussed in some detail in Section 5.2.
