Provided herein is a high-strength seamless steel pipe, and a method for manufacturing same. A high-strength seamless steel pipe of the present invention has a yield strength of 758 MPa or more, and a K.sub.ILIMIT value of 23.0 MPa√m or more as an evaluation index of sulfide stress corrosion cracking resistance.

A method for controlling carbide network in a bearing steel wire rod by controlling cooling and rolling, comprises the following steps: rapidly rolling a bar to a wire rod and spinning it into a loose coil, controlling the rolling temperature at 780° C.-880° C.; and the spinning temperature at 750° C.-850° C.; carrying out on-line controlling cooling of continuous loose coils using EDC water bath austempering cooling process, controlling the cooling rate at 2.0° C./s-10° C./s, and controlling the final cooling temperature within 620-630° C.; after EDC water bath austempering cooling, using slow cooling under a cover, and the temperature is controlled to be 400° C.-500° C. when being removed out of the cover; after slow cooling, collecting coils, and cooling in air to the room temperature.

Provided is a high strength steel sheet that has a predetermined chemical composition and is manufactured under optimum conditions, the high strength steel sheet having a steel microstructure including, by area, ferrite: 30% or more and 80% or less, tempered martensite: 3.0% or more and 35% or less, and retained austenite: 8% or more, wherein the quotient of the area fraction of grains of the retained austenite, the grains having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more and a minor axis length of 1 μm or less, divided by the total area fraction of the retained austenite is 0.3 or more, wherein the quotient of the average Mn content (mass %) in the retained austenite divided by the average Mn content (mass %) in the ferrite is 1.5 or more.

A method of manufacturing a steel sheet plated with an Al—Fe alloy for hot forming. The method includes: aluminum-plating and coiling a base steel sheet to obtain an aluminum-plated steel sheet, where an amount of the aluminum-plating is 30 to 200 g/m.sup.2 based on one surface of the base steel sheet, and tension in the coiling is 0.5 to 5 kg/mm.sup.2; after the aluminum-plating, performing cooling to 250° C. at a rate of 20° C./sec or less; annealing the aluminum-plated steel sheet to obtain the steel sheet plated with the Al—Fe alloy; and cooling the steel sheet plated with the Al—Fe alloy. The annealing is carried out for 30 minutes to 50 hours within a heating temperature range of 550 to 750° C. in a batch annealing furnace.

The steel material according to the present disclosure has a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.35%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.00%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr 0.25 to 0.80%, Mo: 0.20 to 2.00%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, B: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, N: 0.0020 to 0.0100% and O: 0.0100% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfying Formula (1). A number density of precipitates having an equivalent circular diameter of 400 nm or more is 0.150 particles/μm.sup.2 or less. The yield strength is within a range of 655 to 965 MPa. A dislocation density ρ is 7.0×10.sup.14 m.sup.−2 or less.
5×Cr—Mo-2×(V+Ti)≤3.00  (1)

Provided is a steel sheet which can be used for automobile parts and the like, and relates to a steel sheet having an excellent balance of strength and ductility, an excellent balance of strength and hole expansibility and excellent bending workability, and a method for manufacturing same.

The present invention provides a high-strength steel sheet, which can be used in various applications including automobile parts and exhibits excellent collision safety and excellent moldability, and a method for manufacturing the high-strength steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention satisfies a predetermined chemical composition and has a metallographic microstructure having ferrite fraction: 0% to 10%, MA fraction: 0% to 30%, hard phase other than ferrite and MA: 70% to 100% in terms of area proportion and retained austenite fraction: 5% to 30% in terms of volume proportion, and in the high-strength steel sheet, the skewness of IQ as analyzed by the EBRD method is −1.2 to −0.3 when the skewness is expressed by a predetermined relational expression in a case where crystal grains having a bcc structure and a bct structure are regarded as an aggregation of regions having an area of 0.05 μm.sup.2.

An object of the present invention is to provide a low thermal expansion cast steel having a high yield strength at room temperature, a high rigidity, and a low coefficient of thermal expansion. The low thermal expansion cast steel of the present invention is obtained by suitably heat treating a cast steel comprising, by mass %, C: 0 to 0.1%, Si: 0 to 0.5%, Mn: 0 to 0.5%, S: 0 to 0.05%, Ni: 29.0 to 34.0%, Co: 0 to 8%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities so that the 0.2% proof stress becomes 350 MPa or more, the Young's modulus becomes 130 GPa or more, and the average coefficient of thermal expansion at 18 to 28° C. becomes 2.0×10.sup.−6/° C. or less.

A steel sheet with a tensile strength (TS) of 780 MPa or more and less than 1180 MPa, a member, and a method for producing them. In a region of the steel sheet within 4.9 μm in the thickness direction, a region with a Si concentration not more than one-third of the Si concentration in the chemical composition of the steel sheet and with a Mn concentration not more than one-third of the Mn concentration in the chemical composition of the steel sheet has a thickness of 1.0 μm or more. The lowest Si concentration L.sub.Si and the lowest Mn concentration L.sub.Mn in the region within 4.9 μm from the surface of the steel sheet and a Si concentration T.sub.Si and a Mn concentration T.sub.Mn at a quarter thickness position of the steel sheet satisfy the following formula (1):

L.sub.Si+L.sub.Mn≤(T.sub.Si+T.sub.Mn)/4  (1).

The martensitic stainless steel material according to the present disclosure consists of C: less than 0.030%, Si: 1.00% or less, Mn: 0.05 to 2.00%, Cr: 11.50 to 14.00%, Ni: 5.00 to 7.50%, Mo: 1.10 to 3.50%, Cu: 0.50 to 3.50%, Co: 0.01 to 0.30%, Al: 0.001 to 0.100%, N: 0.001 to 0.100%, and the balance: Fe and impurities. The microstructure is composed of retained austenite in an amount of 0 to 15 vol%, and ferrite in an amount of 0 to 10 vol%, with the balance being martensite. The yield strength is 862 MPa or more, and a number density of Cu precipitates is 3.0 x 10.sup.21 to 50.0 x 10.sup.21 /m.sup.3.