Abstract: Commercial grain oriented silicon steels 0 30mm thick were cold rolled to thinner than mm by the cross shear rolling (CSR) and the conventional rolling respectively, then annealed in a normal hydrogen atmosphere furnace. The influence of the process parameters on rolled textures and the magnetic property of thin silicon steel sheets were investigated. The results indicated that the cross shear rolling was beneficial to improve the rolled textures and the magnetic property of the thin silicon steels. The amount of nucleus of Goss grain increased with increasing the mismatch speed ratio; in addition, magnetic properties were improved further with increasing reduction rate, meanwhile, rolled textures tend to well distributed through the thickness of the sheet.

Key words: cross shear rolling, silicon steel, tertiary recrystallization, texture