Effect of cooling rate on transformation texture and variant selection during β → α transformation in Ti-5Ta-1.8Nb alloy

▶ Transformation texture of (1 1 −2 0)//ND type forms in prior-cold rolled Ti alloy. ▶ Texture strength increases with cooling rate, due to variant selection. ▶ Common α variants at grain boundary are preferential selected in slow cooling. ▶ Pole intensity distribution function, for a standard distribution in ODF obtained. ▶ Transformation texture under 'strong' and 'no' variant selection modeled.