Texture analyses of levitated Fe69Ni30Cr1 droplets

For Fe69Ni30Cr1 droplets processed by electromagnetic levitation, the crystallographic texture is strongly correlated with the microstructure seen in optical metallography and with the undercooling at which solidification was initiated. Systematic texture analysis is therefore useful in understanding the development of the microstructure and in particular the mechanism of grain refinement. For initially grain-refined samples, differences in the orientation spread can be attributed to solid-state coarsening.