Investigation on Microstructure, Texture and Tensile Properties of Hot Rolled Strip Casting Grain-Oriented Silicon Steel

2013 ◽  
Vol 395-396 ◽  
pp. 297-301
Author(s):  
Hong Yu Song ◽  
Hui Hu Lu ◽  
Hai Tao Liu ◽  
Guo Dong Wang

An Fe-3wt% Si as-cast strip was produced by twin-roll strip casting process. The as-cast strip was hot rolled at 1150°C by one pass of 20% reduction and coiled at 550°C. The tensile test was carried out and the elongation was measured. The microstructure and texture of the coiled strip and the fracture surface morphology of the tensile samples were characterized. It is found that the microstructure of the as-cast strip was characterized by columnar ferrite grains with pronounced {001}<0vw> fiber texture and martensite. The microstructure of coiled strip consisted of ferrite grains and pearlite, and the texture was mainly characterized by {001}<0vw> fiber texture. The necking was absent during the tensile test and the elongation of coiled strip was as low as 12%. The fracture surfaces of the tensile samples mainly exhibited cleavage fracture mode with coarse cleavage facets and some ligaments.

2011 ◽  
Vol 383-390 ◽  
pp. 3954-3959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinichi Nishida ◽  
Kazuki Fukudome ◽  
H. Furusawa ◽  
M. Motomura ◽  
H. Watari

Strip casting process is possible to shorten for producing strip. Strip is produced from molten metal continuously and directly by strip casting process. Melt drag process is one of the single roll strip casting process. Melt drag process is simpler than general twin roll strip casting process. One of defect of cast strip is surface conditions, for example surface roughness. Cast strip surface roughness is larger than hot rolled strip. Large strip surface roughness is negative effect for cold rolling after strip casting or hot rolling. The aim of this study is improvement of cast strip surface roughness by melt drag process. We suggested vertical melt drag process. And investigations were operated such us producing conditions of Al-Si alloy strip, surface roughness of cast strip and microstructures.


2011 ◽  
Vol 686 ◽  
pp. 506-510
Author(s):  
Yong Mei Yu ◽  
Yun Bo Xu ◽  
Yuan Xiang Zhang ◽  
Ting Zhang ◽  
Xiao Ming Zhang ◽  
...  

The simulation studies were carried out on the oriented silicon steel produced by thin slab casting and rolling (TSCR) and twin-roll strip casting in the laboratory. The precipitation of inhibiter, formation of microstructure and texture were investigated before cold rolling. The inhomogeneous microstructure and texture gradient were observed in the 7-pass hot-rolled strip(2mm)for TSCR process, and texture gradient was not changed after normalizing, and the twin-roll strip casting directly supplied a strip with approx 2mm of thickness being same as that of hot-rolled strip by TSCR. The microstructure of twin-rolling casting strip was almost composed of all equiaxed grains which similar to the normalizing microstructure in TSCR process, but the random texture was obtained by twin-rolling strip casting. The dispersed and clustered precipitates were presented in hot-rolled strip when the ingots were soaked at 1200°C and 1150°C respectively for the TSCR process. And disperse and acicular precipitates were observed by TEM for air-cooling cast strips for process twin-rolling casting.


2012 ◽  
Vol 430-432 ◽  
pp. 669-672
Author(s):  
Toshio Haga ◽  
Hideto Harada ◽  
Shinji Kumai ◽  
Hisaki Watari

Strip casting of Al-25%Si strip was tried using an unequal diameter twin roll caster. The diameter of the lower roll (large roll) was 1000mm and the diameter of the upper roll (small roll) was 250mm. Roll material was mild steel. The sound strip could be cast at the speeds ranging from 8 m/min to 12 m/min. The strip did not stick to the roll without the parting material. The primary Si, which existed at centre area of the thickness direction, was larger than that which existed at other area. The size of the primary Si was smaller than 0.2 mm. Eutectic Si was smaller 5μm. The as-cast strip was ranging from 2mm to 3mm thick and its width was 100mm. The as-cast strip could be hot rolled down to 1mm. The hot rolled strip was cold rolled. The primary Si became smaller and the pore occurred around the primary Si after the rolling.


2005 ◽  
Vol 475-479 ◽  
pp. 489-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisaki Watari ◽  
Keith Davey ◽  
M.T. Alonso Rasgado ◽  
L.D. Clark ◽  
Ryoji Nakamura ◽  
...  

Effects of rolling conditions on warm deep drawability of cast magnesium alloy that were hot rolled after roll strip casting were investigated to ascertain the feasibility of twin-roll strip casting process of AZ31B magnesium alloy. Hot rolling and heat treatment conditions were changed to examine which conditions were appropriate for producing AZ31B wrought magnesium alloys after strip casting process. Microscopic observation of the crystals of the manufactured wrought magnesium alloys was performed. It has been found that a limiting drawing ratio of 2.7 was possible in a warm deep drawing test of the cast magnesium alloy sheets after being hot rolled.


2011 ◽  
Vol 239-242 ◽  
pp. 1944-1947
Author(s):  
Toshio Haga ◽  
Hideto Harada ◽  
Shinji Kumai ◽  
Hisaki Watari

Strip casting of Al-25%Si was tried using the vertical type high speed twin roll caster. Some devices were adopted to enable the strip casting of Al-25%Si. Control of the roll gap, semisolid casting and non-use of the lubricant were useful devices to cast Al-25%Si strip. Roll-casting-ability of the Al-25%Si was discussed. The strip could be cast at 20m/min and 40m/min. As-cast strip was hot rolled down to 1mm by one pass. Bulging was tried at 550°C and it was able.


2011 ◽  
Vol 415-417 ◽  
pp. 947-950
Author(s):  
Hai Tao Liu ◽  
Zhen Yu Liu ◽  
Yu Sun ◽  
Yi Qing Qiu ◽  
Guo Dong Wang

An Fe-6.2wt%Si as-cast strip with equiaxed grains and obvious {001} fiber texture was produced by twin-roll strip casting process. The as-cast strip was successively performed by hot rolling, warm rolling and annealing. The microstructure and texture evolution at each process stage were investigated by using electron backscatter diffraction and x-ray diffraction. It was found that the finally annealed sheet was characterized by large grain size, mild γ-fiber texture and obvious {001} fiber texture. Therefore, a high magnetic induction and a low core loss were obtained in the sheet.


2005 ◽  
Vol 488-489 ◽  
pp. 427-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Mei Yang ◽  
Ding Fei Zhang ◽  
Pei Dao Ding ◽  
Fu Sheng Pan

Magnesium has a hexagonal close-packed crystal structure which makes it more difficult to deform than aluminum. Conventional strip production usually requires several process steps to reach the final strip thickness. Strip casting can reduce some of the process steps and make strip processing simpler and easier, especially for alloys with poor deformability. The twin-roll casting process can directly obtain strips with thickness less than one or two millimeters. In this paper, the metallurgical characteristics of the twin-roll strip casting process were analyzed and discussed. A laboratory scale vertical twin roll caster in prepared AZ31 magnesium alloy strips, with 1.0 to 2.0 mm thick and 150mm wide. Process stability in the thin strip casting process of the alloy has been studied, the casting temperature (superheat) was proven to be a key factor influencing process stability and casting strip quality. The as-cast microstructure of the alloy was analyzed and evaluated by optical microscopy, which showed that the as-cast microstructure was composed of developed dendrites when the superheat was high, and of a rosebush-like structure when the superheat was low. When the casting temperature was close to the liquid phase temperature,the as-cast microstructure became global or grainy, and the grain size of the cast strip was very small. This remarkably improved the deformability of the as-cast strip.


Author(s):  
Zhi-Qiang Xu ◽  
Zhe-Ru Meng ◽  
Shun-Hui Xue ◽  
De-Quan Zhang ◽  
Feng-Shan Du

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