Mechanism of surface texture evolution in pure copper strips subjected to double rolling

Developing ultra-thin copper foils with different surface roughness and microstructure has important significance for improving the service performance and reducing the production cost of high-end circuit boards. In this paper, pure copper strips with initial cube texture were subjected to a double rolling process (deformation amount ranges from 50% to 95%), and the surface textures evolution law and mechanism of double-rolled strips were studied by an X-ray diffraction technique. The results show that when a deformation amount increased from 50% to 70%, the grains of two surfaces rotate away from the cube orientation, and the formed textures of two surfaces mainly consisted of C, S and B orientation components. The orientation density values for these three components on bright surface only had slight difference; the orientation density values for C and S components were much larger than that for B components on a matt surface. When the deformation amount increased to 90%, the increase extents of orientation density values for C and S components were obviously larger than that for B components on a bright surface; the increase extents of orientation density values for these three components were almost the same on the matt surface. It has been found that when deformation amount reaches 95%, the grains orientation of bright surface were relatively concentrated, and the orientation density value for C texture obviously increased to 11.68 and that for B texture was only 3.15; the grains orientation of matt surface were relatively dispersed, and the orientation density value for C texture increased to 9.26 and that for B texture obviously increased to 6.35, and the density values of these two textures had less difference. For the condition of strong compressive and shear stress on the bright surface, grains were mainly rotating to C texture orientation; compared with the bright surface, semi-free deformation condition on the matt surface is beneficial to promote much more grains to rotate to the B texture orientation. (C) 2014 Chinese Materials Research Society. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.