Effect of cumulative strain on texture characteristics during wire drawing of eutectoid steels

The texture characteristics associated with plastic deformation of Fe–C steels near-eutectoid composition during a continuous cold drawing process were thoroughly investigated by orientation distribution function analysis based on X-ray diffraction. The effect of cumulative drawing strains on the 〈1 1 0〉 fiber texture in drawn hypereutectoid and hypoeutectoid steel wires was discussed.