The effects of temperature and alloying elements on γ phase fraction of grain-oriented silicon steel,which contained 2.97-3.42mass% Si and 0.028-0.058mass% C,were studied by microstructure observation and statistics.Furthermore,the quantitative relationships of temperature as well as C,Si,and Mn contents to γ phase fraction were obtained by numerical fitting.The experimental results show that γ phase fraction firstly increases with increasing temperature,reaches a maximum and then decreases in the temperature range of 900-1 250 ℃.The temperature corresponding to the maximum γ phase fraction is about 1 150-1 200℃.Meanwhile,the γ phase fractions in steels at the same temperature have some differences because of different contents of various alloying elements.The verification results show that the values of γ phase fractions to C,Si,and Mn contents at the specific temperatures,which were obtained by multiple linear regression method,agree well with the measured values.In addition,the values of γ phase fractions to C,Si,and Mn contents in the temperature range of 900-1 250℃,which were obtained by binomial regression method,agree with the measured values when the contents of Mn and soluble Al are not more than 0.320mass% and 0.034mass%,respectively.The obtained equations can carry out the approximate prediction of γ phase fractions of grain-oriented silicon steels during the hot rolling process.
The effect of nitrogen content on primary recrystallization microstructure,texture and magnetic property of Hi-B steel was studied by means of optical microscopy（OM）,scanning electron microscopy（SEM）,and electron backscatter diffraction（EBSD）.When nitrogen content increased gradually from 0.005 5% to 0.031 0%,the primary grain size and variation coefficient of nitrided sheet reduced from 26.85μm,0.590 to 18.87μm,0.525-0.565,respectively.Meanwhile,the primary recrystallization texture style of nitrided sheet was nearly identical to the texture style of decarburized sheet before nitriding treatment,but exhibiting a certain change on texture intensity.The variation of average magnetic induction value（B8）and core loss value（P17/50）were manifested to be Mshaped and W-shaped curves,respectively.When nitrogen content reached 0.016 0%,the best value of the average magnetic property of the final product was obtained as follows：the B8 and P17/50 were 1.921 Tand 0.968W/kg,respectively.Meanwhile,the best performance,B8 and P17/50,of single sheet was 1.964 Tand 0.854 W/kg.
