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Texture evolution during skew cold rolling and annealing of a non-oriented electrical steel containing 0.9 wt% silicon

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A novel rolling technique, i.e., skew rolling, was applied to a non-oriented electrical steel containing 0.9 wt% Si, aiming at altering the texture of the final sheets that usually contain the magnetically unfavorable <111>//ND fiber after conventional rolling and annealing. The texture after skew cold rolling was compared to those obtained from conventional rolling and cross rolling and significantly different textures were observed. The cold-rolled steel sheets were then annealed and the texture evolution was investigated using a quasi in situ electron backscatter diffraction technique, i.e., tracking the microtexture of the same area at various holding times at the same temperature. The development of the recrystallization microstructure and microtexture (nucleation and grain growth) was characterized and the effect of skew rolling on the final texture was studied. The mechanisms governing the formation of the final recrystallization texture, e.g., preferential nucleation and selective growth, were elucidated.

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Acknowledgements

Funding for this work was provided by Natural Resources Canada through the Program of Energy Research and Development. United States Steel Corporation Research and Technology Center (Munhall, PA) is gratefully acknowledged for melting, hot rolling and hot band annealing of the steel plates. The authors are grateful to Michael Attard, Darren Bibby, Raul Santos, Renata Zavadil, Jian Li and Pei Liu for their contributions to this project. Dr. Mark Kozdras is thanked for his careful review on the manuscript. Peter Badgley from the United States Steel Corporation Canada (Hamilton, ON) is gratefully acknowledged for coordinating this research.

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    Mehdi Sanjari & Youliang He

  2. Tempel Steel Co, 5500 North Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA

    Erik J. Hilinski

  3. Department of Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B2, Canada

    Steve Yue

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ghent University, B9052, Ghent, Belgium

    Leo A. I. Kestens

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Sanjari, M., He, Y., Hilinski, E.J. et al. Texture evolution during skew cold rolling and annealing of a non-oriented electrical steel containing 0.9 wt% silicon. J Mater Sci 52, 3281–3300 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-016-0616-y

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