A new method of texture analysis is presented that possesses the main advantages of both the Bunge-Roe and Williams methods. The general relations between pole densities and orientation distribution are given as well as an example of the result that can be obtained when only a single incomplete pole figure is available.

The main characteristics of a new method of texture analysis are presented as well aa a comparative study of the results obtained with three different methods.

The ability of the vector method to determine the complete orientation distribution function (ODF) with pole figures will be demonstrated for a particular case. A comparison of the results obtained by the vector method and the series expansion method will be presented.

A so-called “Vector Method” for the texture analysis of cubic materials was presented for the first time at this conference in 1976. Since then this method has been refined and applied successfully to non cubic-materials. It is shown in this paper that the Vector Method provides several advantages over series methods of texture analysis, the most important of which being the relatively small amount of experimental data which are needed for the determination of the entire crystallite orientation distribution.

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