Department of Navy, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6324, Washington, DC 20375-5000, USA
Abstract:
The relative sharpness of electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) patterns is used to quantify the volume fraction of ferrite in low-carbon steels. EBSD pattern quality (PQ) maps are shown to improve imaging of martensite and ferrite over optical and secondary electron imaging. Ferrite volume fraction in isothermally reacted Fe–0.12C–3.28Ni are quantified using PQ maps by manual point counting and image thresholding.