A method for producing an austempered steel is provided. The method includes subjecting a steel alloy having a silicon content of 1.5 to 4.4 weight percent and a carbon content of 0.3 to 0.8 weight percent to continuous cooling followed by annealing. The cooling rate is initially sufficiently fast to prevent predominant formation of proeutectoid ferrite or pearlite, while subsequently at intermediate temperatures, the cooling rate is sufficiently slow to allow a transformation of the austenite to mainly ausferrite during cooling. The annealing is able to complete the transformation of carbon enriched austenite to ausferrite and to temper any martensite previously formed. The method results in the cost-efficient production of one or more continuously cooled and annealed austempered steel components or semi-finished products having mainly an ausferritic microstructure.

Disclosed in the present disclosure is an ultrahigh-strength dual-phase steel. The matrix structure of the ultrahigh-strength dual-phase steel is ferrite and martensite, wherein the ferrite and the martensite are evenly distributed in an island shape. The ultrahigh-strength dual-phase steel contains the following chemical elements in percentage by mass: 0.12-0.2% of C, 0.5-1.0% of Si, 2.5-3.0% of Mn, 0.02-0.05% of Al, 0.02-0.05% of Nb, 0.02-0.05% of Ti, and 0.001-0.003% of B. Further disclosed in the present disclosure is a manufacturing method for the ultrahigh-strength dual-phase steel, comprising the steps of smelting and continuous casting, hot rolling, cold rolling, annealing, tempering, and leveling. The ultrahigh-strength dual-phase steel in the present disclosure has not only good mechanical properties but also excellent delayed cracking resistance and low initial hydrogen content, and can be suitable for manufacturing of vehicle safety structural parts.

Provided are a material for hot stamping, wherein the material includes: a steel sheet including carbon (C) in an amount of 0.19 wt % to 0.25 wt %, silicon (Si) in an amount of 0.1 wt % to 0.6 wt %, manganese (Mn) in an amount of 0.8 wt % to 1.6 wt %, phosphorus (P) in an amount less than or equal to 0.03 wt %, sulfur (S) in an amount less than or equal to 0.015 wt %, chromium (Cr) in an amount of 0.1 wt % to 0.6 wt %, boron (B) in an amount of 0.001 wt % to 0.005 wt %, an additive in an amount less than or equal to 0.1 wt %, balance iron (Fe), and other inevitable impurities; and fine precipitates distributed within the steel sheet. The additive includes at least one of titanium (Ti), niobium (Nb), and vanadium (V), and the fine precipitates include nitride or carbide of at least one of titanium (Ti), niobium (Nb), and vanadium (V) and trap hydrogen.

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.

Provided is a ferritic stainless steel in which cracking is unlikely to be caused in the vicinity of a weld zone by the stress due to expansion, contraction, and deformation due to the thermal effect of welding in the case of performing welding after deep drawing and which is excellent in corrosion resistance in the vicinity of the weld zone. The ferritic stainless steel has a composition containing C: 0.001% to 0.020%, Si: 0.01% to 0.30%, Mn: 0.01% to 0.50%, P: 0.04% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 18.0% to 24.0%, Ni: 0.01% to 0.40%, Mo: 0.30% to 3.0%, Al: 0.01% to 0.15%, Ti: 0.01% to 0.50%, Nb: 0.01% to 0.50%, V: 0.01% to 0.50%, Co: 0.01% to 6.00%, B: 0.0002% to 0.0050%, and N: 0.001% to 0.020% on a mass basis, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. The composition satisfies 0.30%≤Ti+Nb+V≤0.60%.

The present invention relates to steel used for a sash component and the like of a vehicle and, more specifically, to a hot-rolled steel sheet for a high-strength electric resistance welded steel pipe having excellent expandability and a method for manufacturing same, the hot-rolled steel sheet having a smaller decrease in the strength of a welding heat-affected zone (HAZ) formed during electric resistance welding, in comparison with a base material.

A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes: a base steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition; a glass coating provided on the surface of the base steel sheet; and a tension-applying insulation coating provided on the surface of the glass coating, in which linear thermal strains having, a predetermined angle (φ) with respect to a transverse direction which is a direction orthogonal to a rolling direction are periodically formed on the surface of the tension-applying insulation coating at predetermined intervals along the rolling direction, a full width at half maximum F1 on the linear thermal strain and a full width at half maximum F2 at an intermediate position between the two linear thermal strains adjacent to each other satisfy 0.00<(F1−F2)/F2≤0.15, the width of the linear thermal strain is 10 μm or more and 300 μm or less, and in the base steel sheet, an orientation distribution angle γ around a rolling direction axis of secondary recrystallization grains, an orientation distribution angle α around an axis parallel to a normal direction, and an orientation distribution angle β around an axis perpendicular to each of the RD axis and the ND axis in units of ° satisfy 1.0≤γ≤8.0 and 0.0≤(α.sup.2+β.sup.2).sup.0.5≤10.0.

The present disclosure provides a hot-press formed part comprising a plated steel sheet and an aluminum alloy plated layer formed on the plated steel sheet, wherein the aluminum alloy plated layer comprises: an alloying layer (I) formed on the plated steel sheet and containing, by weight %, 5-30% of Al; an alloying layer (II) formed on the alloying layer (I) and containing, by weight %, 30 to 60% of Al; an alloying layer (III) formed on the alloying layer (II) and containing, by weight %, 20-50% of Al and 5-20% of Si; and an alloying layer (IV) formed continuously or discontinuously on at least a part of the surface of the alloying layer (III), and containing 30-60% of Al, wherein the rate of the alloying layer (III) exposed on the outermost surface of the aluminum alloy plated layer is 10% or more.

This disclosure is related to high yield strength steel where mechanical properties, such as elongation, ultimate tensile strength and yield strength in a sheet are maintained or enhanced via thermal treatment optionally provided during a galvanization coating operation.

Methods of producing high strength continuously cast hot rolled steel sheet products are disclosed. The methods include continuously casting a steel slab and then hot rolling with finish rolling on a hot strip mill, quenching on the hot strip mill to form a predominantly matrensitic microstructure, and performing a thermal cycling step including soaking at an intercritical temperature followed by holding at a lower temperature. The resultant hot rolled steel sheet products have a microstructure comprising ferrite and retained austenite. Steels processed in accordance with the present invention exhibit favorable combined ultimate tensile strength and total elongation (UTS.Math.TE) properties, and may fall into the category of Generation 3 advanced high strength steels, desirable in various industries including automobile manufacturers.