The ODF analysis of the surface texture of the hot band of austenitic stainless steel reveals the
presence of orientations of shear texture. These orientation elements are mainly distributed along two
limited tubes of preferred orientations. The fibre of the first tube has its axis 〈110〉 ‖ RD and runs
from {001} 〈110〉 to an orientation near {112}〈110〉 whereas the fibre of the second tube is inclined
30° from ND towards RD (i.e. 〈110〉 30° ND fibre) and stretches from {111}〈112〉 + 5° to the
orientation near {112}〈110〉. The shear texture components are formed at the surface by shearing
during hot rolling. Once they are formed, they get partly recrystallized by dynamic in situ
recrystallization. On the other hand a duplex texture (i.e. retained copper type and recrystallization
type) is present at the centre level of the hot band. The orientation elements of copper type (i.e.
〈110〉 60° ND fibre) are {011}〈112〉, ≈ {123}〈634〉 and {112}〈111〉 whereas the recrystallization
texture components are dominated by cube {001}〈100〉 orientation and other RD rotated cubes
through oriented nucleation during dynamic recrystallization.
