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Metallographic observations of stainless steel sheets produced by twin‐roll type strip caster
Author(s) -
Takuda Hirohiko,
Kikuchi Shiomi,
Hatta Natsuo,
Kokado Junichi
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
steel research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 0177-4832
DOI - 10.1002/srin.199101309
Subject(s) - caster , metallurgy , austenite , annealing (glass) , die (integrated circuit) , materials science , microstructure , composite material , nanotechnology
Microstructures and textures of austenitic stainless steel sheets produced by a twin‐roll type strip caster are investigated at various stages of casting, cold‐rolling and annealing processes. Strip casting is a rapid solidification process and, therefore, the cast strip sheets have fine columnar dendrites and very sharp (100) textures. After cold‐rolling and annealing the strip sheets have equiaxial and somewhat finer grains than those produced by the conventional process, and the texture is composed mainly of the (110)[1̄2] orientation.