Microstructure, texture and precipitate of grain-oriented 4.5wt% Si steel by strip casting

A 0.23 mm grain-oriented 4.5 wt% Si steel sheet was prepared by strip casting, hot rolling, one-stage warm rolling, primary annealing and secondary annealing. A detailed study of microstructure, texture and precipitate was carried out by methods of OM, EBSD, XRD and TEM. It was found that the as-cast strip exhibited equaxied microstructure with random orientation, enabling the fine and homogeneous primary microstructure to be obtained after...