Textural evolution during accumulative roll bonding of an Al–Li alloy

Texture evolution during accumulative roll bonding (ARB) of Al–Li alloy has been investigated up to three passes. The grain size after third pass is ∼450 nm. It has been seen that the textural evolution has no similarity with the simple shear texture; the components are well deviated from the ideal shear components. There is a destruction of texture components produced after first pass during subsequent passes and that can be represented as normal β-fiber rolling texture components.