Abstract
Due to the high penetration depth of thermal neutrons for most materials, neutron diffraction is an efficient tool for bulk texture analysis. The main applications are investigations of coarse-grained materials, non-destructive pole figure measurements of identical samples at different states, detection of weak textures, measurement of unprepared samples and texture investigations of multi-phase systems. It should be pointed out that neutron texture analysis is suitable for basic research as well as for applications.