Relations Between Texture and AnisotropicProperties: Some Applications to Low Symmetry Materials

reproduce the real behaviour of the material with the smallest uncertainty from an adequately reduced knowledge about structural parameters of the material. Among all these parameters the crystalline texture is mainly involved in the polycrystalline anisotropy (this is particularly obvious when measuring physical properties of sharp textured materials). Therefore models solely based on texture information have been developed and justified by the quality of their predictions. As a matter of fact successful predictions do not require the full texture information it depends on the investigated property and on its modelling. This feature is of importance and allows reduction of the practical efforts for collecting data in order to obtain the minimal texture information required for a given model. Advantage can be taken of this opportunity especially when dealing with models applied to low symmetry materials to