Molybdenum is a refractory metal with special properties, like excellent high-temperature strength, low coefficient of thermal expansion, good electrical and thermal conductivity and high Young's modulus. In sheet or ribbon form molybdenum is widely applied as electrodes, heating elements and ideal substrate material for many technological applications, such as electronics, electric power, lighting technology, nuclear energy and even aerospace engineering.To produce work pieces the material has to be thermomechanically processed producing characteristic deformation and recrystallization textures depending on the deformation and/or annealing conditions. The present work concentrates on the influence of the last step of annealing on the texture development of selected sheets and strips of molybdenum. Usually, unidirectional cold rolling in the last stage of production leads to a strengthening of the main texture component, which for molybdenum is the rotated cube component {100} <110>). This component leads to a strong anisotropy of the mechanical properties in the sheet plane. Therefore, specific annealing stages have been tested in order to influence the texture. The texture development during these annealing stages is discussed on the basis of microstructure investigations, texture measurements and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD).
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