Abstract
Part I of the current paper has shown fatigue test results and its corresponding analysis. All of them
practically reject the hypothesis of crystal reorientation and cyclic softening being consequence of prismatic slip system rotation. The present Part II of the paper shows texture measurements in another series of cyclic deformed samples. The textures were measured by both x-rays and neutron diffraction and were analyzed by Crystal Orientation Distribution Function analysis. The textures were used as input data for micromecanical simulation models that allow the calculation of stress evolution in function of textures and along a complete loading cycle. The results show that the crystal and slip system reorientation hypothesis should be rejected on benefit of more traditional models of dislocation-point defects interaction.
