Magnetic properties of grain oriented ultra-thin silicon steel sheets processed by conventional rolling and cross shear rolling

A new procedure consisting of the cross shear rolling (CSR) and the subsequent tertiary recrystallization annealing under dry hydrogen atmosphere was developed to produce the grain oriented ultra-thin silicon sheets less than 0.1 mm with high magnetic property performance. For comparison, the conventional rolling (CR) was also used to process the grain oriented ultra-thin silicon steel sheets. The effect of processing parameters on magnetic properties of the grain oriented ultra-thin silicon steel sheets was investigated. With the increase of annealing temperature and holding time, magnetic properties of the sheets processed by both rolling methods reach saturation as the result of the proceeding of the tertiary recrystallization. The thin sheets rolled by CSR did achieve better magnetic properties than those rolled by CR.