A railroad tank car formed from steel alloy plates having improved toughness and puncture resistance. The steel alloy plates include a steel alloy including in wt. %: C: 0.1-0.15; Mn: 1.0-1.65; Si: 0.15-0.40; Al: 0.015-0.06; Mo: 0.1-0.3; Ni: 0.1-0.25; Nb: 0.015-0.045; Ti: up to 0.02; Cr: up to 0.22; V: up to 0.08; Cu: up to 0.35; P: max 0.025; S: max 0.015; and N: 0.004-0.01. The alloy plates may have been normalized for 30 minutes at 900° C. The alloy plates may have a tensile strength of at least 560 MPa; a yield strength of at least 345 MPa; a total elongation of at least 22%; a CVN impact toughness of at least 135.5J at −34.4° C.; a CVN impact toughness of at least 122J at −45.5° C. The alloy plates may have a ferrite-bainite microstructure, with 10% or less pearlite. The alloy plates of the inventive railroad tank car may have an absence of any banded ferrite-pearlite/martensite structure.

The railway wheel according to the present embodiment has a chemical composition consisting of: in mass %, C: 0.80 to 1.15%, Si: 0.45% or less, Mn: 0.10 to 0.85%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Al: 0.200 to 1.500%, N: 0.0200% or less, Nb: 0.005 to 0.050%, Cr: 0 to 0.25%, and V: 0 to 0.12%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, wherein at least in the microstructure of the rim part and the web part, the amount of pro-eutectoid cementite defined by Formula (1) is 2.00 pieces/100 μm or less:

Amount of pro-eutectoid cementite (pieces/100 μm)=a total sum of the number of pieces of pro-eutectoid cementite which intersect with two diagonal lines in a square visual field of 200 μm×200 μm/(5.66×100 μm)×100  (1)

The present invention provides a high strength hot rolled steel sheet and a method for manufacturing same, the steel sheet containing, in weight percentage, 0.11-0.14% of C, 0.20-0.50% of Si, 1.8-2.0% of Mn, 0.03% or less of P, 0.02% or less of S, 0.01-0.04% of Nb, 0.5-0.8% of Cr, 0.01-0.03% of Ti, 0.2-0.4% of Cu, 0.1-0.4% of Ni, 0.2-0.4% of Mo, 0.007% or less of N, 0.001-0.006% of Ca, 0.01-0.05% of Al, a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein relational expressions 1 to 3 below are satisfied, and a microstructure includes, by area percentage, 88% or more of bainite, 10% or less of ferrite, 2% or less of pearlite, and 0.8% or less of island martensite. [Relational Expression 1] 7≤(Mo/93)/(P/31)≤16. [Relational Expression 2] 1.6≤Cr+3Mo+2Ni≤2. [Relational Expression 3] 6≤(3C/12+Mn/55)×100≤7.

The present invention provides: a plated steel sheet for hot press forming having excellent impact properties after hot press forming; a hot press formed member manufactured using the plated steel sheet for hot press forming; and manufacturing methods thereof. The plated steel sheet comprises: a base steel sheet containing, by weight, 0.15-0.4% of C, 0.1-1% of Si, 0.6-8% of Mn, 0.001-0.05% of P, 0.0001-0.02% of S, 0.01-0.1% of Al, 0.001-0.02% of N, and 0.01-0.5% of Cr, with the remainder comprising Fe and miscellaneous impurities; and a plating layer formed on the surface of the base steel sheet and composed of zinc, aluminum, or an alloy containing zinc and aluminum, wherein the ratio (C S/C B) of the content (C S) of C in a surface layer to the content (C B) of C in the base steel sheet is 0.6 or less, and the ratio ((Mn S+Cr S)/(Mn B+Cr B)) of the total content (Mn S+Cr S) of Mn and Cr in the surface layer to the total content (Mn B+Cr B) of Mn and Cr in the base steel sheet is 0.8 or more.

This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition and the steel sheet in which, at a ¼ depth position of a sheet thickness from a surface, an average grain size is 15.0 μm or less, a total grain boundary number density of solute C and solute B is 1.0 solute/nm.sup.2 or more and 12.0 solutes/nm.sup.2 or less, a total of pole densities of {211}<011> and {332}<113> in a thickness middle portion is 12.0 or less, and a tensile strength is 780 MPa or more is adopted.

A steel sheet for cans has a chemical composition containing, in mass percent, C: 0.085% to 0.130%, Si: 0.04% or less, Mn: 0.10% to 0.60%, P: 0.02% or less, S: more than 0.010% to 0.020%, Al: 0.02% to 0.10%, N: 0.0005% to 0.0040%, Nb: 0.007% to 0.030%, and B: 0.0010% to 0.0050%, B/N that is the ratio of the content (mass percent) of B to the content (mass percent) of N being 0.80 or more, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, and a ferrite microstructure containing 1.0% or more pearlite in terms of area fraction. The steel sheet for cans has a yield stress of 500 MPa or more, a tensile strength of 550 MPa or more, a uniform elongation of 10% or more, and a yield elongation of 5.0% or less.

Provided are a high-strength galvanized steel sheet having excellent delayed fracture resistance by reducing the diffusible hydrogen content in the steel and a method for producing the same. The high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a prescribed composition and a microstructure including martensite and tempered martensite, the total area fraction of the martensite and the tempered martensite being 30% or more, and a galvanizing layer formed on the surface of the steel sheet. The diffusible hydrogen content in the high-strength galvanized steel sheet is 0.50 wt. ppm or less. The half-width of the hydrogen release peak of the high-strength galvanized steel sheet is 70° C. or less. The diffusible hydrogen content and the half-width of the hydrogen release peak are determined by a prescribed analysis method.

Disclosed are a steel plate for a torsion beam and a manufacturing method therefor, and a torsion beam and a manufacturing method therefor. The steel plate for the torsion beam has the following chemical components in percentages by mass: 0.04-0.085% of C, 0.02-0.5% of Si, 1.3-1.8% of Mn, 0.15-0.5% of Cr, 0.12-0.30% of Mo, 0.058% or less of Nb, 0.15% or less of V, 0.02% or less of Ti, 0.02-0.1% of Al, 0.02% or less of P, 0.005% or less of S, 0.005% or less of N, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The steel plate has one or two of Nb and V, and the amount of Nb and V satisfies 0.096%<2Nb+V<0.17%. The steel plate for the torsion beam of the present invention has an excellent elongation and excellent cold bending properties while ensuring high strength, and meets the requirement for producing lightweight torsion beams.

This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in a microstructure, in terms of area %, residual austenite is less than 3.0%, ferrite is 15.0% or more and less than 60.0%, and pearlite is less than 5.0%, an E value that indicates periodicity of the microstructure is 10.7 or more, and an I value that indicates uniformity of the microstructure is 1.020 or more, a standard deviation of a Mn concentration is 0.60 mass % or less, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.

This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, at a depth position of ¼ of a sheet thickness from a surface, an area fraction of GAM.sub.0.5-1.7 is 50% or more and 100% or less, an area fraction of GAM.sub.>1.7 is 0% or more and 20% or less, an area fraction of GAM.sub.≤0.5 is 0% or more and less than 50%, an area fraction of residual austenite is 0% or more and less than 4%, a total area fraction of the residual austenite, fresh martensite, cementite and pearlite is 0% or more and 10% or less, an average grain size is 15.0 μm or less, an average dislocation density is 1.0×10.sup.14/m.sup.2 or more and 4.0×10.sup.15/m.sup.2 less, a total of pole densities of {211}<011> and {332}<113> in a thickness middle portion is 12.0 or less, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.