Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
Deformation in polycrystalline materials is highly inhomogeneous on a micro scale. This inhomogeneity arises from the anisotropy of the constituent grains, coupled with local configurational parameters such as texture, gram size or proximity to a free surface. In a recent paper, we had outlined a new method that extended the traditional x-ray stress analysis to yield quantitative measures of such inhomogeneous deformation. In this paper, this method is used to study the partitioning of inhomogeneous deformation between the phases of 60-40 brass tensile specimens subjected to applied loads.