Additional relaxations in the Alamel texture model

The additional relaxation of the L12L12 shear components of the velocity gradient has earlier been suggested for the special case of rolling in the Lamel Taylor-type of texture aggregate model. This concept of so called type III of relaxation is here generalized to apply for general strain paths by a modification of the Alamel model. Relaxations are made for arbitrarily oriented grain boundary segments, for which only invariant relaxations are allowed. The Alamel+type III model is compared to other Taylor-like models (FC Taylor, Lamel, Lamel+type III, GIA, VPSC) for the case of cold rolling of an initial random texture, as well as for a strong cube texture. In both cases the new model gives improved texture predictions.