The Development of the Rolling Texture of Iron Determined by Neutron‐Diffraction

The development of the rolling texture of a low carbon steel was investigated by neutron diffraction calculating three-dimensional orientation distribution functions. The textures consist of two limited fibre axis components A and B centered about( 1 ¯ 1 ¯ 1 ) [ 1 ¯ 21 ] + 5 ∘ and( 001 ) [ 1 ¯ 10 ]respectively with an angle of rotation of about70 ∘ . For rolling degrees larger than 50% the intensity of the fibre axis component A is being modulated so as to favour the orientation( 1 ¯ 1 ¯ 2 ) [ 1 ¯ 10 ] . The texture may be considered as inverse to the low concentration brass texture in the sense of interchanging rolling and normal directions. It may be understood in terms of{ 110 } 〈 111 〉 —glide and{ 112 } 〈 111 〉 —twinning.