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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2011
Thin foils of stoichiometric Ni3Al below 100 μm in thickness were successfully fabricated by cold rolling of the sheets which were sectioned from directionally solidified ingots. Maximum rolling reduction in thickness amounted to 96%, irrespective of the initial orientation or the existence of columnar grains in the starting sheets. The as-rolled foils were characterized in terms of microstructures, textures and dislocation structures. The deformation microstructures were of a dual banded structure composed of two different {110} textures in the case of <001> rolling direction, while a rather homogeneous structure with a single {110} texture resulted in the case of <112> rolling direction. TEM observation revealed homogenous dislocation structures in either case without cell formation, accompanied by very fine grained-regions at higher reduction.