Abstract: By means of crystallite orientation distribution function (ODF) analysis, the influence on orientation variant selection of cold rolling reductions, recrystallization annealing and cooling rates during α→β→α cyclic phase transformation treatments in cold rolled titanium sheet has been investigated. The results show that, cold rolling reduction and annealing treatment both have a great effect on the formation of phase transformation textures.No variant selection occurs in cold rolled and recrystallization annealed titanium sheet which resulte in a more randomly distributed texture.The phase transformation texture formed α→β→α transformation is inherited after 3 cycles of α→β→α phase transformation. The cooling rates during phase transformation have little effect on orientation variant selection.

Key words: texture, titanium, phase transformation, orientation variant selection, ODF