Abstract
The present research reports the microstructural factors that favor the development of columnar grains during annealing prior to cold rolling (APCR). Results show that decarburization of steel has a strong effect on phase transformations, grain structure and crystallographic texture. Annealing at 850 °C (two-phase field) promotes the development of columnar-grained microstructures with orientations close to the ideal cube texture. Higher annealing temperatures within the intercritical region, results in a mixture of columnar + equiaxial grains (875 °C) or completely equiaxial-grained microstructures (900 °C). Annealing at temperatures within the single ferrite (700 °C, 750 °C) or austenite (950 °C, 1050 °C) phase fields does not promote the development of columnar grains. In these cases, annealing promotes the development of equiaxial grains with rotated cube texture and orientations along the γ-fibre. Changes in texture produced by APCR are consistent with the Bain and Kurdjumov-Sachs correspondence relationships and occur according to oriented nucleation and selective growth mechanisms depending on the characteristics of decarburization.
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