Application of Anisotropic Texture Components

The description of textures in terms of texture components is an established conception in quantitativetexture analysis. Recent developments lead to the representation of orientation distribution functionsas a weighted sum of model functions, each corresponding to one anisotropic texture component. Aswas shown previously, an adequate texture description is possible with only a very small number ofanisotropic texture components. As a result, textures and texture changes can be described by a smallnumber of vivid parameters and their variations, namely by volume parts, half widths and idealorientations. The texture of a tensile tested commercial aluminum alloy was investigated by decomposition intoanisotropic components. The texture evolution during tensile testing is represented by the correspondingchanges of the component parameters and compared with results from an iterative series expansionanalysis.