Electrical Steels

Four decades ago, when the CSM metallurgists were asked by the company managers to draw a development strategy on Electrical Steels, they really got surprised in hearing a paradigm sounding quite different from that of common steels.
Today, it is safe to affirm that what seemed to be a simple cultural discussion about a steel which was a non-steel material because of its extremely low carbon content, its silicium-induced high brittleness and , lastely, the positive effect of hydrogenum on the fabrication process, is turned into a consolidated and well-satisfactory reality at CSM whose limits have been successively extended to magnetic amorphous and ferrite materials.
In fact, this capability of Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.A. does not only cover all topics related to the design, fabrication and characterisation of electrical steels, but it is also concerned with both the technology of ferrites and magnetic glassy materials for all aspects related to their design, synthesis, mixing, pre-consolidation, near-net-shape geometries final sintering and magnetic characterisation.
It is supported and empowered by the rich availability of physical models guaranteeing a theoretical predictive approach, such as those developed for the hydrogen-induced decarburation and recristallisation kintetics for not- and oriented grained steels, and laboratory, pilot-plant scale equipments for the simulation of processes, and the microstructural (EM, TEM,OIM, Xrays, …) and functional magnetic measuraments (B-H curves, Losses, magnetostriction, etc.).