Development of Cross‐rolling Textures in AlMn1

Abstract

True cross‐rolling and pseudo cross‐rolling (with only one change of the rolling direction after half of the total deformation degree) was investigated in an alloy AlMn1 up to 93% deformation. The texture formation was studied in terms of ODF. After true cross‐rolling (multi‐stage rolling) a strong two‐component ideal orientation near (011)[322] was found with maximum densities up to 60 times random. Pseudo cross‐rolling (two‐stage rolling) resulted in weaker, but still strong deformation textures with maximum densities up to twenty times random which were intermediate between unidirectional and true cross‐rolling textures. In both cases, the originally present cube texture decreased continuously with increasing deformation degree.