Precipitation and texture formation in two cold rolled and batch annealed interstitial-free high strength steels

Precipitation and texture formation in two cold rolled and batch-annealed interstitial-free high strength steels have been studied. TiN, Fe(Ti + Nb)P and TiC were the main precipitates observed. A perceptibly higher population of Fe(Ti + Nb)P precipitates in the steel containing a higher amount of P is considered to be primarily responsible for the less intense {1 1 1} texture.