While there have been numerous experiments concerned with the effects of cold rolling and shock deformation on stainless steel residual structure, there have been no systematic attempts to investigate the effect of sequencing of these deformation modes for any material.In the present experimental program, type 304 stainless steel sheet was cold rolled (CR) 15 and 30% and incorporated (along with annealed, undeformed specimens) in a sandwich assembly for shock loading (SL), utilizing a flyerplate technique as previously described (at shock pressures of 150, 250, and 350 kilobars, and at a constant shock pulse-duration of 2.0 μ sec.