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In the fabrication of components from a face centered cubic alloy, wherein the a lloy is cold worked and annealed, the cold working is carried out in a number of separate steps, each step being followed by an ann ealing step. The resultant product has a grain size not exceeding 30 microns, a "special" grain boundary fraction not less than 60 %, an d major crystallographic texture intensities all being less than twice that of random values. The product has a greatly enhanced resistance to intergranular degradation and stress corrosion cracking, and possesses highly isotropic bulk properties.
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