To ensure the deep-drawability of the deep-drawing sheet, the normal anisotropy and planar isotropy of the sheet is required. The drawing property of the sheet is controlled by its crystallographic texture, the type and orientation density of the texture directly influence the drawing-quality of deep-drawing sheet. {1 1 1}(1 1 2) and {1 1 1}(1 1 0) are the ideal textures for deep-drawing sheet, because the correct texture gives the proper orientation of slip system so that the strength in the thickness direction is greater than that in the plane of the sheet. During the production processing of the deep-drawing sheet, the development of crystallographic texture is continuous, and the final texture character of the product is determined by the texture evolution processing at the different technological process. In the present work, the whole production flow of a coiled sheet has been flowed in Benxi Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd., and the samples were cut from this coiled sheet at the different production flow, such as after hot rolling, cold rolling and recrystallization annealing, respectively. The texture evolution processing has been investigated for the whole production flow of the deep-drawing sheet. Some factors that influence the evolution of the crystallographic texture have been analyzed, such as the grain size of hot-rolled sheet, the reduction ration in the cold rolling, the annealing process, the precipitation of AlN during the coiling and, etc. This paper centers on the research of the texture evolution in each different process. An optimum technique to improve the deep-drawability of the deep-drawing sheet has been put forward. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.
