PREFERRED ORIENTATION IN WROUGHT AND ANNEALED METALS

Abstract

Quantitative methods for pole-figure determination have been widely used during the past ten to fifteen years. The standard English text, “The Structure of Metals”, by Barrett is now thirteen years old, but a more recent comprehensive compilation of texture data by Wassermann and Grewen is available in German. A textbook by Underwood has briefly covered selected topics confined to sheet materials and is, as intended by the author, a useful introductory treatment, while a number of textbooks and review articles describe the techniques of preferred-orientation determination and mention some of the more prominent results.