On the origin of cube texture in copper

Journal Article · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1993 · Acta Metallurgica et Materialia; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0956-7151(93)90211-A· OSTI ID:6273606

Duggan, B J ^[1]; Luecke, K; Koehlhoff, G ^[2]; Lee, C S ^[3]

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1. Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
2. Inst. fuer Metallkunde und Metallphysik, Aachen (Germany)
3. Univ. of Birmingham (United Kingdom). School of Metallurgy and Materials

A crystallographic etch in which 111 planes are exposed in copper has been used to determine the orientation of the neighboring substructures surrounding cube oriented microbands in heavily cold rolled copper. These, after characterization into orientation groups, were compared with the neighborhoods of undeveloped cube oriented microbands in lightly annealed material in which almost all well developed recrystallized grains were of cube orientation. By inspection of the two sets of orientation neighborhoods it is demonstrated that only cube microbands surrounded by material with a [theta][degree] (111) orientation relationship provide cube nuclei. Thus the cube texture arises from competition between nuclei in a variety of orientation environments, the successful nuclei having environments into which they initially grow characterized by a [theta](111) relationship. The process is best described as micro-growth selection, in which the local texture determines the viability and competitive advantage of nuclei, while the global deformation texture (i.e. that determined by traditional diffraction methods) is that which is consumed by those nuclei, with the possibility of further growth selection as recrystallization proceeds.

• OSTI ID: 6273606
• Journal Information: Acta Metallurgica et Materialia; (United States), Journal Name: Acta Metallurgica et Materialia; (United States) Vol. 41:6; ISSN 0956-7151; ISSN AMATEB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
360102* -- Metals & Alloys-- Structure & Phase Studies
COLD WORKING
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
COPPER
DATA
DEFORMATION
ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
ELEMENTS
EVALUATION
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FABRICATION
GRAIN ORIENTATION
INFORMATION
MATERIALS WORKING
METALS
MICROSCOPY
MICROSTRUCTURE
NUMERICAL DATA
ORIENTATION
RECRYSTALLIZATION
ROLLING
SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
TEXTURE
TRANSITION ELEMENTS