A successful book covering an important area of materials science, now available in paperback.

The great majority of solid-state materials – natural as well as man-made ones – have a polycrystalline structure. They consist of crystallites having various

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). Preferred crystal orientations and their statistical distribution – the polycrystalline 'texture' – are of

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). Natural, as well as man-made, materials are often assumed to behave uniformly, exhibiting equal strength in a

Natural, as well as man-made, materials are often assumed to behave uniformly, exhibiting equal strength in all directions, because most of them have a polycrys