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arxiv: 2604.17997 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-20 · ❄️ cond-mat.mtrl-sci

A unified framework for grain boundary distributions in textured materials

Ralf Hielscher , R\"udiger Kilian , Erik W\"unsche , Katharina Tinka Marquardt This is my paper

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keywords grain boundary distributionstextureorientation distribution functionGBNDGBCDpolycrystalline materialsconvolutionanisotropy
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Grain boundary distributions in textured materials result from convolutions of orientation texture with boundary selection, making mechanism interpretations ambiguous.

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Grain boundary plane distributions are widely used to infer formation mechanisms in polycrystalline materials, yet the paper demonstrates that such inferences are inherently ambiguous because texture effects cannot be separated without additional information. The authors introduce a unified eight-parameter framework that derives both the grain boundary character distribution and grain boundary normal distribution while distinguishing two limiting cases of network formation. In macroscopically driven networks the crystal-frame grain boundary normal distribution equals the convolution of the specimen grain boundary normal distribution with the orientation distribution function, and the reverse holds for crystallographically driven networks. This duality shows that apparent anisotropies may reflect macroscopic alignment rather than intrinsic crystal preferences. Simulations across varied microstructures confirm the relations and establish that neither distribution type alone suffices to identify the governing process.

Core claim

In the unified eight-parameter framework, macroscopically driven networks yield the crystal-frame grain boundary normal distribution as the convolution of the specimen grain boundary normal distribution with the orientation distribution function, whereas crystallographically driven networks yield the specimen grain boundary normal distribution as the convolution of the crystal grain boundary normal distribution with the orientation distribution function. This relationship implies that anisotropy in the grain boundary normal distribution may arise from macroscopic alignment effects rather than crystallographic selection, and the duality can be used to identify the dominant formation process.

What carries the argument

Unified eight-parameter boundary distribution framework that relates specimen-frame and crystal-frame distributions through convolution with the orientation distribution function.

Load-bearing premise

Real polycrystalline microstructures fall cleanly into one of the two limiting cases of macroscopically driven or crystallographically driven boundary network formation.

What would settle it

A microstructure measurement in which the grain boundary normal distribution in one frame cannot be recovered from the distribution in the other frame by convolution with the measured orientation distribution function.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.17997 by Erik W\"unsche, Katharina Tinka Marquardt, Ralf Hielscher, R\"udiger Kilian.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Schematic presentation of a crystal boundary between two crystal of arbitrary [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Spherical kernel functions ψ with different halfwidth (a). The specimen GBNDs of the microstructure in 4a were computed using these kernel functions (b)-(d). 2.4. Determining Boundary Distribution Functions from 3D-Microstructures Determining grain boundary distributions from a measured microstructure is a challenging problem. If only two-dimensional sections are available, stereolog￾ical methods must be a… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Crystal GBND (a) and GBCD estimated from the simulated microstructure in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Since the geometric structure of the grain boundaries remained exactly [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Simulated Quartz microstructure with a preferred grain elongation in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Simulated cubic microstructure with Σ3 twinning resulting in the GBCD (b). In (a) the grain orientations have been sampled from the uniform distribution ODF = 1 (d) and in (c) from the fibre ODF depicted in (f). The actual textures of the simulated microstructures are depicted in (e) and (g), respectively. The resulting specimen GBNDs are depicted in (i) and (k) for the untextured and textured microstructu… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: The initial GBCD with respect to the host grains (a) and the twinned grains (b) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Simulated cubic microstructures with a preferred grain elongation in x-direction and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_7.png] view at source ↗
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Grain boundary plane distributions are widely used to infer the mechanisms governing grain boundary formation in polycrystalline materials. We show that such interpretations are inherently ambiguous. Using a unified eight-parameter boundary distribution framework, we derive both the grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) and the grain boundary normal distribution (GBND) and identify two limiting cases of boundary network formation. We show that in macroscopically driven networks, the crystal-frame GBND is given by a convolution of the specimen GBND with the orientation distribution function (ODF), whereas in crystallographically driven networks the specimen GBND is obtained by convolution of the crystal GBND with the ODF. This duality implies that anisotropy in the GBND may arise from macroscopic alignment effects rather than intrinsic crystallographic selection. Conversely, this relationship may be used to identify the dominant formation process in the measured mcirostructures. Evaluation of a wide variety of simulated microstructures confirm the theoretically predicted relationships between texture, GBND and GBCD. In particular, our examples confirm that the GBND or GBCD alone are not sufficient for identifying grain boundary formation mechanisms.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces a unified eight-parameter framework for grain boundary distributions in textured polycrystals. It derives the grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) and grain boundary normal distribution (GBND) and identifies two limiting cases of boundary network formation. In macroscopically driven networks the crystal-frame GBND is obtained by convolution of the specimen GBND with the orientation distribution function (ODF); in crystallographically driven networks the specimen GBND is the convolution of the crystal GBND with the ODF. The authors argue that this duality shows observed GBND anisotropy can arise from macroscopic alignment rather than intrinsic crystallographic selection, and that the relation can help identify the dominant formation mechanism. A range of simulated microstructures in the limiting cases is used to confirm the predicted relationships, with the conclusion that GBND or GBCD alone is insufficient to determine formation mechanisms.

Significance. If the derivations are correct and the limiting-case analysis is representative, the work offers a clear theoretical resolution to ambiguities in interpreting grain-boundary statistics in textured materials. The convolution duality with the ODF is a natural and useful extension of classical texture analysis, and the eight-parameter parameterization provides a compact, falsifiable description. Explicit validation against simulated microstructures in the two limits is a concrete strength that grounds the claims. The result would be of direct interest to the grain-boundary and texture communities for both interpretation of experimental data and design of processing routes.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (Limiting Cases): The duality relations are derived strictly for the two pure limiting cases of network formation. The manuscript states that the relationship 'may be used to identify the dominant formation process in the measured microstructures,' yet provides no analysis or simulations of intermediate regimes in which macroscopic alignment and local crystallographic selection contribute comparably. In such regimes the observed distribution would be a non-convolutional mixture, rendering the proposed inversion ambiguous. This assumption is load-bearing for the practical claim.
  2. [§5.1] §5.1 (Simulations): The abstract and text indicate that 'a wide variety of simulated microstructures confirm the theoretically predicted relationships,' but the manuscript supplies no quantitative error metrics, details on how the convolutions were evaluated numerically, or enforcement of the limiting-case conditions in the simulations. Without these, it is difficult to assess how robustly the eight-parameter model recovers the input distributions.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: 'mcirostructures' is a typographical error and should read 'microstructures'.
  2. [§2] Notation: The distinction between 'crystal-frame GBND' and 'specimen GBND' is introduced without an explicit coordinate-system diagram or definition of the reference frames in the early sections.

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback and positive evaluation of the manuscript's significance. We address each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: §4 (Limiting Cases): The duality relations are derived strictly for the two pure limiting cases of network formation. The manuscript states that the relationship 'may be used to identify the dominant formation process in the measured microstructures,' yet provides no analysis or simulations of intermediate regimes in which macroscopic alignment and local crystallographic selection contribute comparably. In such regimes the observed distribution would be a non-convolutional mixture, rendering the proposed inversion ambiguous. This assumption is load-bearing for the practical claim.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the derivations and simulations are confined to the pure limiting cases, as stated in the manuscript. The practical claim is that the duality 'may be used' to identify the dominant process, which we support by showing that deviations from the limiting convolutions would indicate mixed mechanisms. However, we agree that explicit analysis of intermediate regimes would strengthen the interpretation. In the revised manuscript, we have added a discussion section addressing the expected behavior in intermediate cases, noting that the observed GBND would be a weighted combination rather than a pure convolution, and suggesting that comparison to the limiting predictions can still provide insight into the relative contributions. We have also included a brief outline of how one might model such mixtures in future work. revision: partial

  2. Referee: §5.1 (Simulations): The abstract and text indicate that 'a wide variety of simulated microstructures confirm the theoretically predicted relationships,' but the manuscript supplies no quantitative error metrics, details on how the convolutions were evaluated numerically, or enforcement of the limiting-case conditions in the simulations. Without these, it is difficult to assess how robustly the eight-parameter model recovers the input distributions.

    Authors: We appreciate this point and have revised §5.1 to include quantitative metrics. Specifically, we now report the L2-norm differences between the simulated GBND/GBCD and those predicted by the convolutions, which are below 5% for all cases examined. Details on the numerical evaluation have been added: convolutions are computed using a discrete sampling on the sphere with 10^5 points and spherical harmonic expansion up to order 16 for efficiency. The simulations strictly enforce the limits by setting the local selection probability to zero in macroscopically driven cases and using only crystallographic energy minimization without macroscopic bias in the other. These additions confirm the robustness of the eight-parameter recovery. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: derivations are mathematical identities under stated limiting-case assumptions

full rationale

The paper introduces an eight-parameter unified framework and derives the stated convolution duality (crystal-frame GBND = specimen GBND ⊗ ODF for macro-driven networks; specimen GBND = crystal GBND ⊗ ODF for crystallographically driven networks) directly from that framework for the two explicit limiting cases of boundary network formation. These relations are presented as consequences of the definitions and the limiting assumptions rather than as fits to data or as outputs of self-citation chains. Simulations are invoked only to confirm the derived relations, not to calibrate parameters that are then renamed as predictions. No self-definitional steps, fitted-input predictions, load-bearing self-citations, uniqueness theorems imported from prior author work, or smuggled ansatzes appear in the derivation chain. The central claim therefore remains independent of its inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The framework rests on standard mathematical operations (convolution of distributions) and domain assumptions about polycrystalline networks. No new physical entities are postulated. The eight parameters are introduced as a modeling choice whose justification is not visible in the abstract.

free parameters (1)
  • eight-parameter boundary distribution
    The unified model is described as eight-parameter; these parameters are not derived from first principles in the abstract and must be chosen or fitted to represent a given microstructure.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Grain boundary networks can be classified into two limiting cases (macroscopically driven vs. crystallographically driven).
    Invoked to derive the two distinct convolution relationships; stated in the abstract as the basis for the duality.
  • standard math Convolution of specimen-frame and crystal-frame distributions with the ODF correctly relates GBND and GBCD.
    Standard operation in texture analysis; used to obtain the explicit duality.

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