PHOSPHORUS SEGREGATION AND ANNEALING TEXTURE IN A LOW CARBON STEEL SHEETS

The present work is to study the effect of phosphorus on the annealing texture of a low carbonsteel at different cold rolling and annealing condition by means of pole-figure,inverse-polefigure and orientation distribution function(ODF)method.The microstructure and distribu-tion of phosphorus in steel sheet are studied by means of metallography,scanning electron mi-croscope(SEM)and electron probe microanalysis(EPMA).The results show that phos-phorus promotes the formation of the fiber texture of〈011〉parallel to the rolling direc-tion and〈111〉normal to the sheet surface.The texture was found to be affected mainlyby preannealing temperatures,promoted at 390 or 590℃,and retarded at 490℃.At thepreannealing temperature promoting the formation of texture,phosphorus segregation to theinterior of grains was observed.It seems that the formation of the fiber texture may be associ-ated with the segregation of phosphorus.