MTEX - A MATLAB Toolbox for Quantitative Texture Analysis

NEWS

04.10.2009 MTEX 2.0 Release

We are proud to announce the second major MTEX release - MTEX 2.0. Starting with MTEX 2.0 it is now possible to detect grains and grain boundaries in EBSD data and to compute manifold grains statics for them. Furthermore, this is the first release that supports all plattforms Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux with 32 and 64 bit. For more details have a look at the ChangeLog.

Features

• Analyze and visualize crystallographic geometries.
• Analyze and visualize diffraction data.
• Analyze and visualize EBSD data.
• Calculate with model ODFs.
• Recover orientation density functions (ODFs) from pole figures and EBSD data.
• Calculate texture characteristics like entropy, index, Fourier coefficients, volume portion.
• Create publication ready plots of pole figures, inverse pole figures and ODF's

Look at the FeatureList for more information!

Reference Paper

The MTEX algorithm is decribed in the paper A novel pole figure inversion method: specification of the MTEX algorithm which was published in the Journal of Applied Crystallography, vol 41, 6 (Dec 2008). Please refer to this paper when publishing results obtained by MTEX.

Requirements and Plattforms

The zip file contains binaries for Windows, Mac OSX (32 and 64 bit), and Linux (32 and 64 bit). The only requirement for installing MTEX is MATLAB 7.1 or higher. Have a look at the InstallationGuide for the installation instructions.

Supported Interfaces

MTEX provides interfaces to the most common devices for EBSD and pole figure meassurements. For a complete list of supported interfaces see here.

Polefigures recalculated from Neutron diffraction data overlaid with two different EBSD data sets.	X-ray diffraction data measured at a very irregular grid using an adaptive refinement algorithm.
Raw EBSD data and detected grains plotted by MTEX.	ODF estimated from the left hand EBSD data plotted in 6 sigma section.