The effect of Mn content on the texture of aluminium alloys in cold rolled and annealed state

Abstract

The crystallographic texture greatly influences the properties of the cold rolled and hot rolled semi-products. As semi-products undergo further shaping (and heat treatment) before reaching their final condition, it is important to know their crystallographic texture. During our research, three different alloy aluminium alloys were tested (3003, 3103, unalloyed Al sheet) with different Mn content. In the first step the initial hot-rolled sheets were cold rolled to ∼1 mm thickness without intermediate annealing. In the second step the sheets were cold rolled to 3 mm and annealed. In parallel, an intermediate annealing was applied at ∼3 mm thickness for the 3103 alloy and subsequently cold rolled to 1 mm and annealed. The annealings were performed at 300°C for 3 hours in an air furnace. The resulting textures are characterized by the volume fractions of the main texture components, which were calculated from the orientation distribution function (ODF). The dominant texture components were determined for the different alloys in different states.