A comparison of grain quantitative evaluation performed with standard method of imaging with light microscopy and EBSD analysis

The purpose of the research was to illustrate a reconstruction of grains in case of selected cross-section of a precision cast turbine blade made of MAR M247 polycrystalline nickel-base superalloy using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) in the scanning electron microscope (SEM) and standard methods of quantitative metallography using imaging with light microscopy. The results of measurement of the grains performed using both methods were compared with each other with the help of a statistical test.