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This study details the development and validation of a new algorithm that determines the dominant habit plane of a transformed child phase from orientation maps of a single planar cross-section. The method describes the habit plane in terms of its five-parameter grain boundary character and couples it to the specific orientation relationship of the identified orientation variant. The symmetry operations associated with the specific orientation relationship of the variants are applied to transform habit plane traces as determined in the specimen-fixed reference frame into the parent or child re...

Microstructure evolution via deformation-induced martensitic transformation, void formation, and crack propagation is investigated in a metastable austenitic Cr–Mn–N stainless steel for up to 90° bending using a combination of electron backscattering diffraction and parent grain reconstruction. Stress–strain heterogeneity and stress triaxiality studied using finite-element analysis reveal that the inner and outer radii are in approximately uniaxial compressive and tensile stress states, respectively, with the outer radius showing higher values for von Mises and principal stresses and eq...

The variant graph is a new, hybrid algorithm that combines the strengths of established global grain graph and local neighbor level voting approaches, while alleviating their shortcomings, to reconstruct parent grains from orientation maps of partially or fully phase-transformed microstructures. The variant graph algorithm is versatile and is capable of reconstructing transformation microstructures from any parent-child combination by clustering together child grains based on a common parent orientation variant. The main advantage of the variant graph over the grain graph is its inherent abili...