Overview on Basic Types of Hot Rolling Textures of Steels

The present study gives a review on basic types of crystallographic textures developing during hot rolling of polycrystalline steels. The results are grouped into three fundamental classes of textures. The first group comprises pure Fe, some weakly bonded B2 and DO 3 structured intermetallics, as well as closely related alloys such as ferritic low carbon and microalloyed interstitial free steels. The second group includes highly alloyed corrosion‐resistant ferritic stainless and Fe‐Si transformer steels. Typical examples are steels with about 10 wt.%‐17 wt.% Cr, with about 3 wt.% Si, as well as body centered cubic transition metals such as Ta, Mo, and Nb which do not undergo any phase transformation during hot rolling. The third group comprises stable and instable austenitic stainless steels for instance on the basis of larger amounts of Cr and Ni or on Mn as well as duplex steels. Most L1 2 structured intermetallic alloys can also be assigned to this group. The suggested classification scheme is discussed in terms of different processing parameters, thermodynamics, microstructure, and crystallographic aspects.