Rolling and recrystallization texture of cold rolled if steel: A study from low to high deformation

Abstract

IF steel was homogeneously cold rolled between 30-95% reduction in thickness. The global cold rolling textures showed a gradual strengthening of both stable α and γ components with increasing reduction until ∼80% after which γ remained effectively unchanged but α components intensified until 95% reduction of thickness. Deformation Banded (DB) and also fragmented microstructures were found exclusively in y grains up until about 85% reduction after which DB was unexpectedly detected in a grains, becoming significant after 95% reduction. This is in sharp contrast with the rather undifferentiated microstructures found in a grains at low to medium levels of deformation. At lower reductions the annealing texture was a weak α, but the γ component increased with rolling strain and became dominant at ∼80% rolling deformation. A peak type γ recrystallisation texture with orientations ranging from {554}<225> to {111}<123> was found in the 95% rolled sample. In addition to this a {411 }<148> component began to intensify, reading 5R at 95% reduction. Microstructural analysis showed that DB provided the lattice curvature for nucleation in the α fibre. © 2004 Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.