A method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a silicon steel material production process of producing a silicon steel material; a hot rolling process of obtaining a hot rolled sheet by subjecting the silicon steel material to hot rolling; a cold rolling process of obtaining a steel sheet having a final sheet thickness by subjecting the hot rolled sheet to a single cold rolling process or to multiple cold rolling processes having intermediate annealing performed between cold rolling processes; a decarburization annealing process of subjecting the steel sheet to decarburization annealing using a decarburization annealing furnace including a heating area and a soaking area; and a final annealing process of applying an annealing separator having alumina as a main component to the steel sheet and subjecting the steel sheet to final annealing, wherein, in the decarburization annealing process, when X represents the Cr content of the silicon steel material in terms of mass %, an oxidation degree P1 of an atmosphere gas in the heating area satisfies the following Expression 1 and an oxidation degree P2 of an atmosphere gas in the soaking area satisfies the following Expression 2:

0.18X−0.008≤P1≤0.25X+0.15≤0.20  (Expression 1); and

0.01≤P2≤0.15  (Expression 2).

A method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a silicon steel material production process of producing a silicon steel material; a hot rolling process of obtaining a hot rolled sheet by subjecting the silicon steel material to hot rolling; a cold rolling process of obtaining a steel sheet having a final sheet thickness by subjecting the hot rolled sheet to a single cold rolling process or to multiple cold rolling processes having intermediate annealing performed between cold rolling processes; a decarburization annealing process of subjecting the steel sheet to decarburization annealing using a decarburization annealing furnace including a heating area and a soaking area; and a final annealing process of applying an annealing separator having alumina as a main component to the steel sheet and subjecting the steel sheet to final annealing, wherein, in the decarburization annealing process, when X represents the Cr content of the silicon steel material in terms of mass %, an oxidation degree P1 of an atmosphere gas in the heating area satisfies the following Expression 1 and an oxidation degree P2 of an atmosphere gas in the soaking area satisfies the following Expression 2:

0.18X−0.008≤P1≤0.25X+0.15≤0.20  (Expression 1); and

0.01≤P2≤0.15  (Expression 2).

Provided is an ultra-high strength steel sheet used as a material of a vehicle and, more specifically, to an ultra-high strength steel sheet having excellent bendability and a manufacturing method therefor. There is an effect of providing a steel sheet by utilizing a continuous annealing furnace without having water quenching equipment, thereby simultaneously ensuring a tensile strength of 1200 MPa or greater compared with that of conventional super high strength martensite steel and having excellent shape and bending properties.

A non-oriented electrical steel sheet with an average magnetostriction λ.sub.p-p at 400 Hz and 1.0 T of not more than 4.5×10.sup.−6, and area ratio of recrystallized grains at a section in rolling direction of steel sheet of 40 to 95% and an average grain size of 10 to 40 μm is obtained by subjecting a steel slab containing, in mass %, C: not more than 0.005%, Si: 2.8 to 6.5%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.0%, Al: not more than 3.0%, P: not more than 0.20%, S: not more than 0.005%, N: not more than 0.005%, Ti: not more than 0.003%, V: not more than 0.005% and Nb: not more than 0.005% and satisfying Si-2Al-Mn≥0 to hot rolling, hot-band annealing, cold rolling and finish annealing under adequate cold rolling and finish annealing conditions, and a motor core is manufactured by such a steel sheet.

The seamless steel pipe according to the present disclosure includes a base material and a decarburized layer formed on the surface of the base material. The chemical composition of the base material consists of, in mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.00%, P: 0.0300% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.30 to 1.20%, Mo: 0.30 to 1.50%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, V: 0.01 to 0.30%, Nb: 0.002 to 0.100%, B: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, N: 0.0100% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and with the balance being Fe and impurities. The base material has a yield strength of 655 MPa or more, and a yield ratio of 85.0% or more. The decarburized layer has a depth of 150 μm or less.

The seamless steel pipe according to the present disclosure includes a base material and a decarburized layer formed on the surface of the base material. The chemical composition of the base material consists of, in mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.00%, P: 0.0300% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.30 to 1.20%, Mo: 0.30 to 1.50%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, V: 0.01 to 0.30%, Nb: 0.002 to 0.100%, B: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, N: 0.0100% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and with the balance being Fe and impurities. The base material has a yield strength of 655 MPa or more, and a yield ratio of 85.0% or more. The decarburized layer has a depth of 150 μm or less.

One aspect of the present invention relates to a plated steel sheet for hot press forming, having an excellent impact property.

One aspect of the present invention relates to a plated steel sheet for hot press forming, having an excellent impact property.

This steel sheet is a steel sheet (100) formed by causing end surfaces of a first sheet material (111) and a second sheet material (113) to abut each other in an in-plane direction and welding the first sheet material (111) and the second sheet material (113) via a strip-shaped welded part (115), and in which a softened part (120) that is softened more than other parts in the welded part (115) is formed in at least a part of the welded part (115), and on a first end surface of the steel sheet in which an end part of the welded part (115) in a longitudinal direction is formed, a region in which the softened part (120) is not formed is provided in at least a part of the end part of the welded part (115) in the longitudinal direction, and a maximum value of a depth of the softened part (120) in a sheet thickness direction is, as a ratio to a sheet thickness of the steel sheet (100), 50% or less.

Provided is a steel sheet comprising a sheet thickness center part and a first surface layer softened part and a second surface layer softened part respectively arranged at two sides of the sheet thickness center part, wherein the first surface layer softened part and second surface layer softened part have 10 μm or more average thicknesses and have average Vickers hardnesses of 0.90 time or less of the average Vickers hardness of a sheet thickness ½ position, and the first surface layer softened part has an average Vickers hardness of 1.05 times or more the average Vickers hardness of the second surface layer softened part.