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Melt/substrate contacting experiments, designed to approximate conditions encountered during strip casting, were carried out to produce as-cast ferritic stainless steel strip. The results show that inoculation of the melt to produce TiN particles, together with casting onto a smooth substrate, results in the optimum conditions for nucleation and subsequent growth of an exceedingly high volume fraction of ferrite grains with 〈001〉 oriented within a few degrees of the normal direction (ND) of the strip surface. It is argued that, during casting, TiN particles either nucleate or deposit onto the substrate with 〈001〉 parallel to the ND, and since these particles exhibit crystallographic features similar to δ-ferrite, subsequent epitaxial growth inherits the initial particle orientation. Such oriented nucleation of ferrite from a smooth substrate results in the optimum heat-transfer conditions for further growth of dendrites with 〈001〉 perpendicular to the substrate, thus producing the intense through-thickness 〈001〉//ND fiber texture in the as-cast strip. The potential for producing grain-oriented silicon iron by direct strip casting is outlined.
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Hunter, A., Ferry, M. Texture enhancement by inoculation during casting of ferritic stainless steel strip. Metall Mater Trans A 33, 1499–1507 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-002-0072-y
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