First presented are keynote lectures, followed by papers on deformation, including magnesium, severe plastic deformation, accumulative roll bonding and high pressure torsion, modeling, orientation gradient, experimentation research, and creep and superplasticity; deformation and annealing, including cube texture and thermo-mechanical processing; techniques, microstructure, dislocations, x-ray/neutron diffraction, recent advances, and
electron backscatter diffraction measurements; annealing, with discussion of grain coarsening, recrystallization, and recovery; and materials, such as corrosion oxidation, interfaces, electrical steel, steel, titanium and zircaloy, phase transformation, shape memory, nano-structure materials, microstructural engineering, and non-metallic materials.
Unknown phases can then be identified automatically by matching the calculated patterns with the observed patterns generated using the
electron backscatter diffraction technique, an increasingly popular scanning electron microscope-based technique used for the analysis of samples in materials science, geology, microelectronics and related research fields.