It has been clarified that deformation and annealing of martensite starting structure can produce ultrafine-grained structure in low carbon steel. This study aims to investigate the texture evolution and mechanical properties of samples with martensite structure deformed by two different forging processes. The martensitic steel samples were forged by plane strain compression and multi-directional forging up to the same true strain of 2. All samples were then annealed at 450 and 550°C for 30 min. It was found that the active slip systems in the BCT crystalline structure of martensite acted like ferrite steel. After the multi-directional forging of martensitic steel, the yield and ultimate strength greatly increased to 1278 and 1658 MPa, respectively. During annealing, in the plane strain compressed sample, the "oriented nucleation" and in the multi-directional forged specimen, the "selective growth" theory was dominant. Manuscript profile

Electrical steels are important alloys widely used in electrical instruments. The magnetic properties and low core loss of grain oriented silicon steels are closely related to the sharpness of Goss texture ({110} ).The direction of is the softest direction for magnetism. In this work, the microstructure and dependence of orientation density along the major texture fibers on the applied cold rolling sequences in the CRGO samples were investigated. Variation of the hysteresis losses revealed that hysteresis losses were high for the specimen treated at higher secondary cold reduction. In this sample, the conditions for selective growth of Goss oriented grains are violated which leads to development of grains with random orientations almost equally. The results also indicated that the annealing of the cold rolled specimen at the higher first cold reduction and lower secondary reduction showed increase of the {110}texture component intensity and drastically decrease in hysteresis losses. Manuscript profile