Effect of crystallographic texture on pair distribution function analysis in engineering materials

Physical properties of alloys are known to be affected by local order on the atomic scale; however, since this structural feature appears on sub-nanometer to nanometer scale, characterization of it is inherently challenging. Interest in local order in metallic systems has increased in recent years, driven by the development of increasingly compositionally complex alloys and observation of phenomena that cannot be explained by microstructural changes alone. One way to study local order is through