Fabrication of grain-oriented silicon steel by a novel way: Strip casting process

A 0.23 mm-thick grain-oriented silicon steel sheet was successfully produced by a new process including strip casting, hot rolling, normalizing, two-stage cold rolling with an intermediate annealing, primary annealing and secondary recrystallization annealing. Microstructure, texture and inhibitor evolutions were briefly investigated. It was shown that Goss texture was absent in the hot rolled strip. After normalizing, a number of finely...