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 and an excellent balance of strength and hole expansibility, and excellent bending workability, and a method for manufacturing same.

Provided is a steel sheet which can be used for automobile parts and the like, and relates to a steel sheet having a superior balance of strength and ductility and strength and hole expansion ratio and superior bending formability, and a method for manufacturing same.

Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that has excellent magnetic properties and can be manufactured by secondary recrystallization orientation control using coil annealing with high productivity. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprises a specific chemical composition, wherein an average value of a deviation angle (α.sup.2+β.sup.2).sup.1/2 calculated from a deviation angle α from ideal Goss orientation around an ND rotation axis and a deviation angle β from ideal Goss orientation around a TD rotation axis is 5.0° or less, and an area ratio R.sub.β of crystal grains with β≤0.50° is 20% or less.

Disclosed is a method for preparing a high-flatness metal foil suitable for making a metal mask, and the method comprises the following steps: forming a raw metal coarse foil; rolling the raw metal coarse foil at least once into a high-flatness metal foil; performing, by a heat treatment device, heat treatment processing on the precisely rolled metal foil according to a preset temperature and a preset time; using a tension leveler to perform tension leveling on the rolled and heat-treated metal foil; and obtaining a high-flatness metal foil after completion of the tension leveling and forming a rolled metal foil in a continuous forming process. The resulting metal foil has high flatness and low residual stress, which improves quality and performance of the metal foil and is suitable for the fabrication of fine metal masks.

A normalizing heat-treated steel sheet having good low-temperature impact toughness and a method for manufacturing the same is provided. The normalizing heat treated steel sheet of the present invention contains, by weight %, C: 0.04 to 0.1%, Si: 0.05 to 0.5%, Mn: 1.0 to 2.0%, Sol. Al: 0.015 to 0.04%, Nb: 0.003 to 0.03%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.02%, Cu: 0.35% or less, Ni: 0.05 to 0.8%, N: 0.002 to 0.008%, P: 0.01% or less (excluding 0%), S: 0.003% or less, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and has a steel microstructure composed of 70 to 90 area % of polygonal ferrite having a grain size of 20 μm or less, and 10 to 30 area % of spheroidized pearlite.

A hot stamped body with high strength and good bendability, comprising a chemical composition consisting of: in mass %, C: 0.06% or more to less than 0.20%, Si: 0.010 to 1.00%, Mn: 1.20 to 3.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.010 to 0.500%, N: 0.010% or less, Nb: 0.0010 to 0.020%, Ti: 0 to 0.10%, V: 0 to 0.10%, Cr: 0 to 0.50%, Mo: 0 to 1.00%, B: 0 to 0.0100%, Ni: 0 to 0.50%, REM: 0 to 0.0100%, Mg: 0 to 0.010%, Ca: 0 to 0.0100%, and Co: 0 to 2.0%, with the balance: Fe and impurities, wherein a microstructure includes martensite: 85% or more, a proportion of regions in the martensite where GAIQ values are 35000 or more to less than 45000 is 30 area % or more, and TS×α, is 105000 or more, and α is 75 or more.

A method for manufacturing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a step of performing hot rolling on a steel material having a predetermined chemical composition, a step of performing first cold rolling, a step of performing process annealing, a step of performing second cold rolling, and a step of performing any one or both of final annealing and stress relief annealing. A final pass of finish rolling is performed in a temperature range equal to or higher than an Ar1 temperature, the steel sheet is held for 2 hours or less in a temperature range lower than an Ac1 temperature in the final annealing, and the steel sheet is held for 1200 sec or more in a temperature range equal to or higher than 600° C. and lower than the Ac1 temperature in the stress relief annealing.

A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a microstructure in a ¼ width portion, a microstructure in a ½ width portion, and a microstructure in a ¾ width portion, include, by area %, ferrite: 80% or more, martensite: 2% or less, and residual austenite: 2% or less, in which a proportion of unrecrystallized ferrite in the ferrite is 5% to 60%, an average grain size of carbonitrides is 6.0 nm to 30.0 nm, and Expressions (2) to (5) are satisfied.

Δ.sub.SF/μ.sub.SF≤0.10  (2)

Δ.sub.dF/μ.sub.dF≤0.20  (3)

Δ.sub.SUF≤20  (4)

Δ.sub.dC/μ.sub.dC≤0.50  (5)

Provided is an electric resistance welded steel pipe or tube having excellent fatigue durability after rapid and short-time heating quenching treatment. An electric resistance welded steel pipe or tube comprises: a base metal being a steel sheet having a specific chemical composition and an electric resistance weld portion having a bond width of 40×10.sup.−6 m or more and 120×10.sup.−6 m or less, wherein C.sub.0-C.sub.1 is 0.05 mass % or less, where C.sub.0-C.sub.1 is a difference between C.sub.1 in mass % which is a minimum C content of the electric resistance weld portion and C.sub.0 in mass % which is a C content of the steel sheet, and a depth of a total decarburized layer in each of an inner surface layer and an outer surface layer of the electric resistance welded steel pipe or tube is 50×10.sup.−6 m or less.

The steel sheet of the present invention has a steel microstructure containing, in area fraction, martensite: from 20% to 100%, ferrite: from 0% to 80%, and another metal phase: 5% or less, and in which a ratio of a dislocation density in metal phases on a surface of the steel sheet to a dislocation density in the metal phases in a thicknesswise central portion of the steel sheet is from 30% to 80%. The maximum amount of warpage of the steel sheet when the steel sheet is sheared to a length of 1 m in a rolling direction is 15 mm or less.