Patent ID: 6976380

Claim:
A method for developing a texture of a material, comprising: receiving a billet of material, the billet having an initial texture, the billet associated with an extrusion procedure comprising one or more extrusion routes, the one or more extrusion routes having one or more passes; repeating the following for each route of the one or more extrusion routes: repeating the following for each pass of the one or more passes to transform the initial texture to a developed texture of the billet: extruding the billet through an inlet channel of an equal channel angular extrusion die according to the one or more extrusion routes; and extruding the billet through an outlet channel of the equal channel angular extrusion die according to the one or more extrusion routes; and performing a heat treatment recrystallization procedure on the billet having the developed texture to transform the developed texture to a recrystallized developed texture.