Microstructures in Materials

= Microstructures in Materials =

Amorphous
No microstructure whatsoever!

Single phase
grain boundaries, twin boundaries, stacking faults,

texture, grain orientation, grain shape

dislocations, dislocation arrays, substructure,

Two phase
Spinodal microstructures (mottled, basket-weave, ...)

Precipitation

Discontinuous precipitation: lamellae, colonies, ...

Eutectoid transformation: lamellae, colonies, ...

Disorder to order transformation: antiphase boundaries, first order and higher order transformations ...

Martensitic transformation: lath, plate, lenticular ...