dNano-structured metals with advantageous mechanical properties can be produced using severe plastic deformation techniques such as equal channel angular pressing (ECAP). Metals and alloys processed by ECAP have much higher yield strengths than the equivalent unprocessed material while retaining high ductilities, an extremely attractive combination of properties. Implicit in the process are the introduction of repetitive shear strains of 100% which introduce texture, the modeling of which is challenging. In this work, we present results from a neutron diffraction study on aluminum and nickel samples processed by ECAP. The results are compared to predictions from a visco-plastic self-consistent (VPSC) model. By taking into account grain-grain interactions in the model the agreement between the predicted and measured orientation distributions is improved. The results show also that the initial texture affects the texture evolution, at least up to strains of the order of similar to1, i.e. one ECAP pass.