3D EBSD Dataset of the Alpha and Beta Phase Orientations for a Hot-Rolled Model Zircaloy-4 with 7 wt.% Nb Alloy

A set of serial-section electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) data files and a 3D reconstruction of a model Zircaloy-4 with 7 wt.% Nb addition alloy following hot-rolling.

The 3D data set contains measurements of the material rolled at 725C to 75% reduction. The measurements include indexing of both the alpha and the beta phases in 441 sequential slices, each of 0.1 μm, through a small section of the material, taken using the dual beam Thermo Scientific Helios Xe+ plasma focused ion-beam scanning electron microscope (PFIB-SEM). The 3D EBSD data set includes EBSD measurements in the form of ctf files, binary data files, an Aztec project file, and accompanying images for each slice.

A 3D volume was reconstructed from the 3D EBSD data set using a customised pipeline within the DREAM.3D software. The results of this analysis are included in the 'dream3d' folder, which includes a description of the pipeline, the final fully reconstructed dream3d data file, an xdmf file used for visualising the data in ParaView, a h5ebsd file containing results for the reconstruction, and grain averaged data for each of the identified features.

Please see our accompanying paper for analysis of the 3D reconstruction - as well as analysis of the 2D measurements from 10.5281/zenodo.3784460 - and for interpretation of the coupled crystallographic texture evolution;

C.S. Daniel, A. Garner, P.D. Honniball, L. Bradley, M. Preuss, P.B. Prangnell, J. Quinta da Fonseca, Co-deformation and dynamic annealing effects on the texture development during alpha–beta processing of a model Zr-Nb alloy, Acta Materialia 205 (2021) 116538. 10.1016/j.actamat.2020.116538