Final textures in cold rolled Zr702 alpha polycrystalline samples

The ability to access to large plastic deformations in cold rolling is appl ied here in order to determine the final orientations of different initial textures of Zr702 alpha polycrystalline samples (T1-T4 textures). A distrib ution of the <c > axes in the vicinity of the normal direction (ND) of the sheets and an isotropic repartition of the I io T ol poles, almost in the r olling-transverse plane (RD-TD), appears as a final orientation for most of the analyzed samples. No significant reorientation of the {0002} poles fro m the (RD-ND) plane or from the vicinity of the ND direction to a stable or ientation in the (ND-TD) plane is observed.