FORMATION OF BASIS TEXTURE IN VT23 ALLOY BY CROSS ROLLING

Six schedules of plastic deformation of VT23 alloy were studied (lengt hwise rolling followed by cross rolling at different temperatures) to determine the conditions ensuring a sufficiently large fraction of bas is texture in the plane of rolled sheet over the entire thickness of i t. X-Ray analysis was used to plot inverse pole figures. Maximum basis fraction in the rolled sheet is achieved by direct rolling at a tempe rature that is adequate for obtaining an acute prismatic texture [1120 BAR] in the direction normal to the sheet plane with subsequent cross rolling which results in intensive primary twinning and absence of sec ondary twinning.