Effect of initial cube texture on the recrystallization texture of cold rolled pure nickel

High-purity nickel samples with different volume fractions of initial cube textures were cold rolled to 96% reduction and subsequently annealed at different temperatures. The survived cube orientation fractions in the cold-rolled samples were found to be in proportion to the volume fraction of the initial cube texture. The initial cube fraction could affect the recrystallization process significantly, which showed some huge differences in the case of low temperature annealing from that of high temperature annealing.