Microstructure and texture evolution of ultra-thin high grade non-oriented silicon steel used in new energy vehicle

The evolutions of microstructure and texture of ultra-thin high-grade non-oriented silicon steel for new energy vehicles were investigated in this paper, and the formation mechanism of typical recrystallized alpha*-fiber texture was described. The results show that: The microstructure of the hot rolled plate was inhomogeneous along the thickness direction because of the shear force and temperature gradient, resulting in the texture in each layer of the hot rolled plate appearing rotational distribution around the Goss orientation. After normalizing, the fully recrystallized microstructure was obtained, and alpha*-fiber texture was formed. Banded structure was obtained in the cold rolled sheet, with alpha-fiber texture {114}110 dominated. The typical alpha*-fiber texture was formed after annealing recrystallization, which mainly consist of {114} and {113}. The {114} oriented grains were mainly nucleated within the deformed {114} grains and at the grain boundaries of alpha-fiber deformed grains, and without size, quantity and strength advantages. {111} is dominated in the early stage of recrystallization, but {114} became the main texture with size, strength and quantitative advantages in the late stage of recrystallization.