The present invention provides a high tensile strength steel plate having a chemical composition containing, in percent by mass, 0.03% to 0.12% of C, 0.01% to 0.30% of Si, 0.5% to 1.95% of Mn, 0.008% or less of P, 0.005% or less of S, 0.015% to 0.06% of Al, 0.011% to 0.05% of Nb, 0.005% to 0.02% of Ti, 0.001% to 0.006% of N, 0.0005% to 0.003% of Ca, optionally, one or two or more of Cr, Mo, V, Cu, and Ni, in which Ceq is 0.44 or less, Ti/N is 1.5 to 3.5, and parameter formulas composed of specific elements for controlling the sulfide morphology and the degree of center segregation in the steel are satisfied, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, in which the hardness of the center segregation area of the steel sheet is further specified.

Manufacturing a cold-rolled steel plate by smelting a steel slab having the chemical composition containing on the basis of percent by mass, C from 0.03 to 0.12%, Si from 0 to 1.0%, Mn from 0.2 to 0.8%, P at 0.03% or less, S at 0.03% or less, Ti from 0.04 to 0.3%, and Al at 0.05% or less, with a residue being formed of Fe and unavoidable impurities, the chemical composition satisfying 5*C%-Si %+Mn %−1.5 *Al %<1, and an average diameter of particles of a Ti-based carbide as a precipitate is from 20 to 100 nm; heating the slab to 1200° C. or more and hot rolling, forming a hot-rolled steel plate; winding the hot-rolled steel plate from 500 to 700° C. to form a hot-rolled coil; and cold rolling or annealing and cold rolling the coil obtaining cross-sectional hardness from 200 to 400 HV.

A thick-walled high-strength steel plate with excellent low-temperature toughness (Charpy impact and CTOD properties of a weld bond) in a multilayer weld zone, and a method for manufacturing the steel plate.

A nanocrystalline bainitic steel consisting of, by weight percentage: 0.3% to 0.6% carbon; 9.0% to 20.0% nickel; up to 10% cobalt; 1.0% to 4.5% aluminium; up to 0.5% molybdenum; up to 0.5% manganese; up to 0.5% tungsten; up to 3.0% chromium; and the balance being iron and impurities.

In a method for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet by hot rolling a steel slab having a chemical composition including C: 0.001˜0.10 mass %, Si: 1.0˜5.0 mass %, Mn: 0.01˜0.5 mass %, Al: less than 0.0100 mass %, each of S, Se, O and N: not more than 0.0050 mass % and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, subjecting the resulting hot rolled sheet to a single cold rolling or two or more cold rollings sandwiching an intermediate annealing therebetween to a final thickness, subjecting to a primary recrystallization annealing, applying an annealing separator thereto and then subjecting to a finish annealing, a zone of 550˜700° C. in a heating process of the primary recrystallization annealing is rapidly heated at an average heating rate of 40˜200° C./s, while any temperature zone of 250˜550° C. is kept at a heating rate of not more than 10° C./s for 1˜10 seconds, whereby secondary recrystallized grains are refined to obtain a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet stably realizing a low iron loss.

In a method of producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet by hot rolling a steel slab having a chemical composition comprising C: 0.001 to 0.10 mass %, Si: 1.0 to 5.0 mass %, Mn: 0.01 to 0.5 mass %, S and/or Se: 0.005 to 0.040 mass %, sol. Al: 0.003˜0.050 mass % and N: 0.0010 to 0.020 mass %, subjecting to single cold rolling or two or more cold rollings including an intermediate annealing therebetween to a final thickness, performing primary recrystallization annealing, and thereafter applying an annealing separator to perform final annealing, a temperature range of 550° C. to 700° C. in a heating process of the primary recrystallization annealing is rapidly heated at an average heating rate of 40 to 200° C./s, while any temperature zone of from 250° C. to 550° C. is kept at a heating rate of not more than 10° C./s for 1 to 10 seconds, whereby the refining of secondary recrystallized grains is attained and grain-oriented electrical steel sheets are stably obtained with a low iron loss.

An end block is disclosed. The end block may include a body extending between a front side, a back side, a left side, a right side, a top side and a bottom side. Furthermore, the body may include a first bore extending through the body between an inlet port and an outlet port and a cylinder bore extending between a cylinder port and the first bore. Moreover, the body may include a precipitation hardened martensitic stainless steel comprising between 0.08% and 0.18% by weight carbon, between 10.50% and 14.00% by weight chromium, between 0.65% and 1.15% by weight nickel, between 0.85% and 1.30% by weight copper, iron, and a first precipitate comprising the copper.

A wear resistant steel plate that exhibits excellent impact wear resistant properties and that is suitable for use in construction machinery, shipbuilding, steel pipes or tubes, civil engineering, construction and so on, and a method for manufacturing the same. The wear resistant steel plate includes a specific steel composition, where DI* defined by Formula 1 is 100-250, and has a surface layer part containing 90% or more in area ratio of martensite, a Brinell hardness of 450 HBW 10/3000 or more, and a central part in thickness direction of the steel plate containing 70% or more in area ratio of lower bainite, the central part representing a zone extending from a ½ position of the steel plate thickness to distances of 0.5 mm toward both surfaces of the steel plate.
DI*=33.85×(0.1×C).sup.0.5×(0.7×Si+1)×(3.33×Mn+1)×(0.35×Cu+1)×(0.36×Ni+1)×(2.16×Cr+1)×(3×Mo+1)×(1.75×V+1)×(1.5×W+1)  Formula 1
where the symbols of elements represent the contents by mass % of the elements, respectively.

In a thickness range of which center is a ¼ thickness from the surface of a base steel sheet, a volume fraction of a ferrite phase is 0% to less than 50%, a volume fraction of the total of a hard structure composed of one or more of a bainite structure, a bainitic ferrite phase, a fresh martensite phase, and a tempered martensite phase is 50% or more, a volume fraction of a retained austenite phase is 0-8%, and a volume fraction of the total of a pearlite phase and a coarse cementite phase is 0-8%, at an interface between a plating layer and the base steel sheet, a Fe—Al alloy layer is provided, the Fe—Al alloy layer having an average thickness of 0.1-2.0 μm and a difference between a maximum thickness and a minimum thickness in the width direction of the steel sheet being within 0.5 μm.

A steel sheet having a tensile strength of 1100 MPa or more and excellent in crash resistance, having a micro-structure containing tempered martensite: 95 vol. % or more, wherein in a cross section parallel to a sheet-thickness direction of the steel sheet, when a sheet thickness is denoted by t, in a 300-μm-square region centered about a t/2 point, a standard deviation of Vickers hardnesses that are measured under a load of 9.8 N at 30 points is 30 or less, wherein when a 100-μm-square region centered about a t/2 point is divided into 10×10, 100 subregions, and at a center of each of the subregions, a nano hardness is measured under a maximum load of 1 mN, out of the subregions, the number of subregions each of which makes a difference in nano hardness of 3 GPa or more from any one of eight surrounding subregions is 10 or less.