Introduction

Strain path is the sequence of deformations that the thermomechanical processes need to create a final product; this deformations in most of the cases are huge plastic deformations, and create a texture or preferred orientation in the material. This texture has a strong influence in the final properties of the materials. The relation between the strain path and the texture evolution is not well predicted by actual models.

This research has the aim of try to measure and propose a model that relation the strain path and the texture evolution, we will try to reach this generated textured material under specific deformed conditions with the Arbitrary Strain Path Machine (ASP II) and a sequence of recrystallization experiments under different times of recrystallization.

The method that we will use to measure the texture in our material will be the Electron back scattered diffraction (EBSD) that is based on the acquisition of diffraction patterns from bulk samples in the scanning electron microscope.

The tests conduced in the ASP II will involve the creation of material under hot working conditions, with strain states in forward – forward processes and forward – reverse processes. After this with this material we could carry on recrystallization tests under different recrystallization times.

With all this data we will measure the relation between the strain path and the texture evolution.