The cold rolling texture development of two alpha/gamma duplex stainle
ss steels (DSS) with similar volume fractions of both phases but with
totally different microstructures were investigated. Due to the limite
d number of available pole figures using X-rays, for the calculation o
f the ODFs bath a direct method and a recent iterative series expansio
n method were used. The results were checked by neutron diffraction me
asurements, The austenitic phases of both DSS behave similarly to sing
le phase materials with a low stacking fault energy which develop a br
ass-type rolling texture, in contrast, the texture development of the
ferritic phases strongly differs from those of single phase ferrites.
Instead of a fibre type texture the alpha-phase in both DSS exhibits a
peak dominated texture regardless of whether it is the matrix phase o
r not. These differences, as well as the sharpness of both phases, are
explained by the presence of the second phase.