Many important properties of a polycrystalline material are known to depend on the orientation of the crystallites. The distribution of these orientations is referred to as its texture. During the past decade a remarkable sophistication of experimental methods, of texture determination and texture representation has been achieved, and, at the same time, a fast development of texture applications, for the improvement of materials propert ies and for investigating the processes underlying the texture formation has taken place. As a consequence of this increasing interest in texture analysis and control in research and practice, world wide conferences on textures of materials were established in order to master the increasing flood of ideas and results. Until now five of such meetings were held, namely in Clausthal (1969), Cracow (1971), Pont-a-Mousson (1973), Cambridge (1975), and in Aachen (1978). The sixth conference of this series will be held in Tokyo. The present two volumes contain the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Con ference on Textures of Materials (ICOTOM 5). It was held from March 28-31, 1978 at the Institut fUr Allgemeine Metallkunde und Metallphysik of the Rheinisch-Westfiilische Technische Hochschule Aachen. The 150 participating scientists (47 from Germany, 103 from 19 other countries) heard 16 invited and 86 contributed papers. Topics of the conference were all important areas of current research and application: texture analysis, experimental methods, deformation textures, recrystallization textures, transformation tex tures, textures of minerals, textures in steels, textures in special applications, influence of the texture on physical and mechanical properties.

Invited Papers

Methods of ODF Calculation
Recent Developments in Experimental Methods of Texture Measurement
Deformation Textures in Single Crystals
Calculation of Deformation Textures According to the Taylor Model
Microstructural Inhomogeneities Resulting from High Strain Deformations
The Structure of Highly Deformed Materials and the Development of Deformation Texture
Recent Aspects in the Understanding of Recrystallization Texture Development
Some Old Nucleation Theories Reconsidered
Analysis
On the Analysis of Orientation Distribution Functions by Superposition of Gauss Type Scattering Functions
A Simple Way for Calculation ODF from Incomplete Pole Figures
An Approximative Determination of the Orientation Distribution Function
Method for Orientation Distribution Function Analysis in Maximum Shear Planes
Practical Advantages of the Vector Method of Texture Analysis
Methode of X-Ray Determination of Twin Fault Probability in Cubic Metals with Fibre Texture
Experimental Methods
Texture Studies on Magnesium Alloy Tubes
Energy-Dispersive Diffractometry for Quantitative Determination of Texture
Texture Control Theoretical and Practical Study
Determination of Crystallographic Relations in In Situ Composites by Texture Goniometry
Advances in the Automatic Determination of Pole Figures
Deformation Textures
Investigations into the Development of Rolling Texture of Some FCC Metals
Crystalline Orientation Distribution Function Analysis of Texture Development in Titanium
Non-Homogeneity of Texture in the Rolling of Nickel
The Solution of the Taylor Problem for Slip on {111} or {110}
A Method for the Determination of the Active Slip Systems and Orientation Changes During Single Crystal Deformation
The Shortcomings of the Taylor Model in the Description of the Plastic Deformation of Real Polycrystals
Quantitative Analysis of Cross-Slip and Twinning in FCC Polycrstalline Metals
Selection of the Active Slip Systems in BCC and FCC Polycrystals
Computer Simulation Study of the Texture Transitions in FCC Metals and Alloys
Comments on Deformation Texture Development and Poly crystalline Modelling
The Evolution of Deformation Textures
Influence of a Rolling or a Tensile Deformation on the Evolution of Texture Symmetrical or Not - of Aluminium Sheets Relation with the Strain Ratio R
Influence of the Critical Shear Stress Ratio of {112} and {110} Slip Planes of the Rolling Texture of BCC Metals
The Origin of the FCC Rolling-Texture Component with {111} Parallel to the Rolling Plane
Microstructural Modelling of Shear Bands
Development of Dislocation Structure and Orientation Gradients in Kink Bands
Recrystallization Textures
Electron Microscopical Studies of Orientation Relationships on Large Angle Grain Boundaries Formed During Cold Work of Copper Single Crystals
Rolling and Recrystallization Textures in the System Copper-Zinc as Function of the Zn-Content
Study of the Primary Recrystallization of Alpha Titanium by Three-Dimensional Analysis of Textures and by In-Situ Annealings in the 1 MV Electron Microscope
Nucleation Phenomena in Low Stacking Fault Energy FCC Metals
Annealing Textures of Rolled Aluminium Crystals
On the Recrystallization Textures of Some Binary Aluminium Alloys
Shear Bands and Recrystallization in Alpha Brass Sheet
Orientation of Recrystallization Nuclei in a Deformed AlMgSil-Alloy
Orientation Dependence of Cell Size in Nb-Stabilized Steels and the Development of the Recrystallization Texture
Texture Transformation During Primary Recrystallization of Rolled Copper Sheets as Function of the Annealing Time
The Orientation Density Function of Single Crystals from Growth Selection Experiments
On the Possibility of Proving the Growth Selection Theory of Recrystallization Textures by Growth Selection Experiments
Grain Growth in Strained {110} Low Stacking Fault FCC Crystals after Artificial Nucleation
Recrystallization Texture Development in Tensile Deformed Silver Single Crystals
The Anisotropy of Plane Grain Growth in Cold Rolled Aluminium
Computer Simulation of Microstructure Alterations and Texture Formation in Normal Grain Growth
Grain Growth Textures of Iron-Nickel Alloys
Author Index Volume I
Author Index Volume II
Volume
Transformation Textures
Textures in Minerals Textures in Steels
Textures in Special Applications
Influence of Texture on Mechanical and Physical Properties.