Abstract
The textural and microstructural banding through the thickness of 17%Cr ferritic stainless steel hot
band has been investigated. The surface texture is nearly random and consists of shear texture
components formed by simultaneous action of shear deformation and dynamic recrystallisation. The
texture in the central layer is a strong recrystallisation-type. The through-thickness textural and
microstructural banding, to a large extent, has been weakened by annealing the hot band in two-phase