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Texture Analysis of Ferritic Stainless-Steel Sheet

Improving deep drawability through recrystallisation texture control

  • Ferritic stainless steel
  • Texture
  • Deep drawing
  • Thermo-mechanical processing
Deep-drawn stainless-steel cup, sheet and flange beside a thermo-mechanical processing temperature curve and micrographs of recrystallisation texture evolution.

Overview

Deep drawability of ferritic stainless steel is improved by increasing the r-value, which depends on microstructure and recrystallisation texture. Multistage thermo-mechanical processing is performed to impart a homogeneous distribution of <111> || ND oriented grains.

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Texture Analysis of Ferritic Stainless-Steel Sheet · METNMAT