The present disclosure relates to a thick steel material that can be appropriately used as a line pipe, a sour-resistant material and, more particularly, to a high-strength steel material having excellent sulfide stress corrosion cracking resistance and excellent resistance against propagation of sulfide stress corrosion cracking, and a method of manufacturing the steel material.

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 and a method for manufacturing same, the steel sheet, which can be used for automobile parts and the like, having superb bendability, and excellent balance of strength and ductility and of strength and hole expansion ratio. The steel sheet includes: by wt %, C: 0.25 to 0.75%, Si: 4.0% or less, Mn: 0.9 to 5.0%, Al: 5.0% or less, P: 0.15% or less, S: 0.03% or less, N: 0.03% or less, a balance of Fe, and unavoidable impurities; and as microstructures, ferrite which is a soft structure, and tempered martensite, bainite, and retained austenite which are hard structures.

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

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 steel sheet having properties particularly suitable as a material of automotive external panels because bake hardenability and room-temperature aging resistance are excellent, and a method of manufacturing the steel sheet.

A steel material for a vacuum tube according to an aspect of the present disclosure may include C: 0.1˜0.2%, Si: 0.05∞0.5%, Mn: 1.0∞1.6%, Ni: 0.5∞1.0%, Cr: 1.5∞4.0%, and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities in percentage by weight, and may have a complex structure of ferrite and pearlite as a microstructure.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a wire rod and a method of manufacturing same. The wire rod comprises, by weight %, 0.3-0.5 wt % of C, 0.02-0.4 wt % of Si, 1.0-1.5 wt % of Mn, 0.3-0.7 wt % of Cr, 0.003 wt % or less (exclusive of 0 wt %) of B, less than 0.03 wt % (exclusive of 0 wt %) of Ti, 0.03 wt % or less (inclusive of 0 wt %) of P, 0.01 wt % or less (inclusive of 0 wt %) of S, 0.02-0.05 wt % of Al, 0.001-0.01 wt % of N, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a microstructure is a complex structure having a main phase of ferrite+pearlite, with at least one of bainite or martensite accounting for 5 area % or less (inclusive of 0%), and has a cementite average aspect ratio of 35 or less in an area covering ⅖-⅗ of the diameter.

A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: more than 0.18% and less than 0.30%, Mn: more than 2.50% and 4.00% or less, and other elements. The steel micro-structure at a position at a depth of ¼ of the sheet thickness from the surface in an L cross section of the steel sheet is, in area %, tempered martensite: 25 to 90%, ferrite: 5% or less, retained austenite: 10 to 50%, and bainite: 5% or less. At a position at a depth of ¼ of the sheet thickness from the surface of the L cross section, the proportion of a total area of retained austenite grains having an area of 1 μm.sup.2 or more and having a grain shape circularity of 0.1 or more is less than 50% with respect to the entire area of retained austenite. The steel sheet satisfies the formula C.sub.Mnγ/C.sub.Mnα≥1.2.

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.