Texture evolution of 3% non-oriented silicon steel during cross-shear rolling

The asynchronously cold-rolling texture and formation of recrystallization texture and its evolution were investigated for the 3% non-oriented silicon steel sheet after normalization, to which the rolling speed ratio was 1.06 and thickness was 0.5 mm as cold-rolled just once with 77.3% reduction. The recrystallization annealing of the sheet was done under atmosphere protection. The original texture components of the normalized sheet is mainly the {110} and {113}, while the asynchronously cold-rolling texture is mainly the α and γ. There is no texture type change beside the fast and slow rolls, but the orientation density of α and γ textures is much higher on the side of slow roll than on the side of fast roll. After recrystallization annealing, the orientation density of α texture decreases significantly, while for γ texture the orientation density of {111} texture decreases but that of {111} texture increases.