Aims and Scope

Texture, Stress, and Microstructure is a multidisciplinary, international journal that provides a medium for communicating works from the closely linked Quantitative Texture Analysis (QTA), Residual Strain-Stress Determination (QSA), and Microstructure (QMA) scientific communities. It is devoted to materials scientists, metallurgists, mineralogists, geologists, crystallographers, life scientists, and engineers of various disciplines who have an interest in the textures, stresses, and microstructures of crystalline or semi-crystalline solids of any kind, e.g., metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, rocks, soils, biomaterials, ice or others.

The journal publishes fundamental as well as applied papers and short communications from all fields of science needing polycrystal investigation using scattering of rays, original research that contributes to the understanding of texture, stress, and microstructure development:

  • Theoretical aspects of Quantitative Texture Analysis, Quantitative Stress Analysis and Quantitative Microstructure Analysis, new mathematical developments
  • New Measurement, Experimental and Analysis methodologies using rays: x-rays (classical and synchrotron, hard and soft), electron, neutron, optic scattering
  • Characterisation of Materials:
    • bulks, thin films and complex architectures (composites, layered systems, hybrids)
    • polycrystalline, nanocrystalline and partly crystalline
    • from applied chemistry and physics, earth, life and environmental sciences, etc.
    • under extreme conditions (high-pressure, high temperature, high fields, etc.)
  • Anisotropic properties of crystalline solids related to preferred orientation and strain-stress states
  • Recrystallization, grain growth and plasticity of crystalline materials
  • Microscopic to macroscopic properties correlation, optimisation, calculation and simulation
  • Influence of texture, stress, microstructure on other physical measurements, e.g., spectroscopies (Raman, EXAFS, ESR, etc.), tomographies, topographies, polarised sources, etc.
  • Interrelationship between textures, stress, microstructures, and technological applications of materials, as well as between textures and geological, biomedical, archaeological, palaeontological processes
  • Computer program and database developments
  • Teaching

In addition to research papers the journal accepts review articles, book reviews, editorials, letter to the editor, and meeting abstracts.