Patent ID: 8250895

Claim:
A method comprising: feeding a workpiece into rolls in a rolling mill, wherein the workpiece is tilted about an axis parallel to the axis of the rolls of a rolling mill to a tilt angle between 2-20 degrees, wherein the workpiece is a metal plate or sheet; so that the texture of the workpiece is controlled, wherein the method includes more than one pass through rolls at a tilt angle of between 2-20 degrees at a predetermined reduction schedule calculated to adjust the shear strain distribution through the thickness of the material and which the workpiece is a) turned over between passes at regular intervals; or b) passed successively through two or more rolling mills and the direction of the tilt angle is alternated between the successive rolling mills; and wherein the workpiece after feeding has a shear texture that is increased and the workpiece after feeding has a percentage of grains in a unit volume of a fcc metal aligned within 15-deg of <100>//ND and <111>//ND that is larger than 10.2% and 13.6%, respectively.