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Magnetic field–dependent microstructure evolution and magnetic property of Fe–6.5 Si–0.05 B alloy during solidification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2019

Chunmei Liu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
Yunbo Zhong*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
Zhe Shen
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
Licheng Dong
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
Tianxiang Zheng*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
Weili Ren
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
Zuosheng Lei
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
Zhongming Ren
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
*
a)Address all correspondence to these authors. e-mail: yunboz@staff.shu.edu.cn
b)e-mail: ztx@shu.edu.cn
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Abstract

Fe–6.5 Si–0.05 B alloy was used in the study to investigate the texture evolution and magnetic property of the ferromagnetic crystal under an axial high magnetic field during bulk solidification. Optical microscopy (OM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were applied to analyze the microstructures and texture evolution of the alloy solidified under different magnetic field intensities. The result shows that with an increase in the magnetic field intensity from 0 to 2 T, the texture gradually changes from random orientation to {100} 〈120〉, eventually becoming a mixture of cube and Goss texture. The alloys treated at 1 and 2 T showed magnetic anisotropic behavior, while the alloy treated at 0 T showed magnetic isotropic behavior. The change in magnetic property comes from the evolution of α-Fe crystal orientation. Furthermore, a method for controlling the crystallization process and crystallographic orientation by adjusting the magnetic field intensity was proposed.

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