The cold-rolling and annealing textures of a deep-drawing
phosphorus steel have been studied by the spatial orientation distribution
of the crystallites. The characteristics of the orientation
distribution functions of the as-cold-rolled and of the annealed
sheets were closely examined. The observed features suggest that
the annealing texture is originated by microband or transition-band
nucleation, followed by the growth of recrystallized grains at the
expense of the matrix deformation textures. The crystallite orientation
distribution of the annealed sheet of the deep-drawing phosphorus
steel is clearly different from that of the annealed sheet
of deep-drawing aluminum-killed steels.