Provided is a steel sheet for a hot press formed member having excellent resistance to hydrogen delayed fracture, and a method for manufacturing the same. A steel sheet for a hot press formed member comprises: a base steel sheet; an aluminum alloy plating layer on a surface of the base steel sheet; and an oxide layer which is formed on a surface of the plating layer and has a thickness of 0.05 μm or more.

A multi-material component joined by a high entropy alloy is provided, as well as methods of making a multi-material component by joining materials with high entropy alloys to reduce or eliminate liquid metal embrittlement (LME) cracks.

Disclosed is a multi-layer composite cold-rolled steel plate, provided with an upper surface layer, a lower surface layer and at least one interlayer between the upper surface layer and the lower surface layer in the thickness direction of the steel plate, wherein the phase proportion of austenite in the microstructure of the upper surface layer and the lower surface layer is ≥95%, and the at least one interlayer comprises at least one first interlayer, with the phase proportion of martensite in the microstructure of the first interlayer being ≥85%. In addition, further disclosed is a method for manufacturing the multi-layer composite cold-rolled steel plate above, the method comprising the steps of: (1) preparing billets for various layers and assembling the billets; (2) rolling; (3) acid pickling and cold-rolling; (4) annealing, involving: controlling the annealing temperature to be 830-890° C., then cooling to 700-800° C. at a rate of 3-15° C./s, and then water-cooling until the steel plate temperature is below 100° C.; and (5) acid pickling the steel plate and then heating same to 180-240° C. for tempering, with the tempering time being 200-600 s. The multi-layer composite cold-rolled steel plate of the present invention has the characteristics of a high strength, a high formability and resistance to delayed cracking.

This coating composition for an electrical steel sheet contains an epoxy resin, a phenolic curing agent (A) and one or more amine-based curing agents (B) selected from the group consisting of an aromatic amine and dicyandiamide, the amount of the phenolic curing agent (A) is 1 to 40 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin, and the amount of the amine-based curing agents (B) is 0.5 to 5 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the epoxy resin.

Provided is a steel sheet comprising a sheet thickness center part and a first surface layer part and a second surface layer part respectively arranged at two sides of the sheet thickness center part, wherein the first surface layer part and second surface layer part respectively independently have thicknesses of more than 10 μm to 30% or less of the sheet thickness, the first surface layer part and second surface layer part have average Vickers hardnesses different from the average Vickers hardness of a sheet thickness ½ position, and a first hardness cumulative value at a region from a surface of the first surface layer part side to 30% of the sheet thickness is 1.05 times or more of a second hardness cumulative value at a region from a surface of the second surface layer part side to 30% of the sheet thickness.

A method of resistance spot welding a stacked assembly of dissimilar workpieces. The stack assembly includes a first workpiece formed of a first alloy, a second workpiece formed of a second alloy, and a third workpiece formed of a third alloy sandwiched between the first workpiece and the second workpiece. The third alloy includes a lower resistivity than the first alloy and a lower resistivity than the second alloy. A faying interface is defined by a portion of the first workpiece in direct contact with a portion of the second workpiece through the third workpiece. A weld nugget, a braze, or a combination of a weld nugget and a braze joins the first workpiece to the second workpiece at the faying interface. An annular ring of re-solidified molten pool of third alloy surrounds the faying interface and a region of re-solidified partially melted third alloy surrounding the annular ring.

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.

A steel member, a hot-rolled steel sheet to be used as a material thereof, and production methods therefor are provided. A steel member contains 0.010% to 0.120% Ti, in which 0.005% or more of Ti is precipitated as a precipitate having a particle size of 20 nm or less in the microstructure. A hot-rolled steel sheet for the steel member contains 0.010% to 0.120% Ti, in which 0.005% or more of Ti is present as dissolved Ti in the microstructure. A method for producing the steel member includes subjecting a hot-rolled steel sheet to forming processing and then performing heat treatment including heating to a temperature of higher than 550° C. and 1,050° C. or lower and then cooling at an average cooling rate of 10° C./s or more in the temperature range of 550° C. to 400° C.

The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a galvannealed steel sheet including the steps of A.) coating of the steel sheet with a first coating consisting of nickel and having a thickness between 150 nm and 650 nm, the steel sheet having the following composition in weight percentage 0.10<C<0.40%, 1.5<Mn<3.0%, 0.7<Si<3.0%, 0.05<Al<1.0%, 0.75<(Si+Al)<3.0%, and on a purely optional basis, one or more elements such as Nb≤0.5%, B≤0.010%, Cr s 1.0%, Mo≤0.50%, Ni≤1.0%, Ti≤0.5%., the remainder of the composition is made up of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the elaboration, B.) annealing of the coated steel sheet being annealed at a temperature between 600 to 1200° C., C.) coating of the steel sheet obtained in step B.) with a second coating based on zinc and D.) an alloying heat treatment to form a galvannealed steel sheet.

A method for connecting lamination parts to form lamination stacks. In order to ensure a versatile applicability of the lamination stacks, it is proposed that first cut-outs are stamped out identically in the first sub-region and in a second sub-region of the electric strip, additional second cut-outs are stamped into the second sub-region in accordance with the number of spacers, which second cut-outs are embodied to accommodate the spacers, and a second lamination part stamped out from the second sub-region is stacked either before or after the first lamination part in such a way that when spacers of the first lamination part are resting against this second lamination part, the second cut-outs are positioned offset from these spacers.