Fig. 9: Young’s modulus of t-ZrO2 and modelled macrotexture.

a Directional dependence of Young’s modulus in the body-centred tetragonal ZrO2 crystal produced using the SC-EMA tool70. b Contoured pole figures for the \(\{111\}\) and \(\{10\bar{6}\}\) monoclinic ZrO2 poles as modelled using the orientation relationships obtained in this study based on Zircaloy-4 substrate with a crystallographic texture shown in the \( < 0002 > \) Zr contour pole figure, as measured using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). Colours represent intensity in units of MRD (multiples of a random distribution).