INFLUENCE OF HOT-ROLLING CONDITIONS ON TEXTURE DEVELOPMENT IN DEEP-DRAWING STEELS

As the textures of deep-drawing sheet steels are important for certain material properties the purpose of this paper was to take a closer look at the hot-rolling, cold-rolling and annealing textures of different deep-drawing steel grades. Several Al-killed mild steels and vacuum-degassed Ti-IF steels have been hot rolled in the mill varying the finishing temperature (FT). After coiling, cold rolling and short-time annealing the textures at different thickness levels have been measured by means of (110)-pole figures and orientation distribution functions (ODFs). For both steel groups the textures at the surface of the hot strip exhibit a more or less pronounced shear type character. Towards the mid-thickness level (with lower FT more clearly) typical (cold-) rolling textures exist characterized by a strong {001}[110] orientation and in the Ti-IF steels additionally by a significant {112}[110] orientation density. In the case of high FT cold rolling and annealing lead to favourable {111}-textures where deep-drawing application is concerned. For the Al-killed steels lowering FT results in diffuse recrystallization textures whereas in the Ti-IF steels a sharp texture with near {223}[582] orientations can be observed which have not been known for these steels before. The results prove that the hot strip textures can be of great importance for the resulting annealing textures and the according material properties.