An embodiment of the present invention provides a non-oriented electrical steel sheet including. in wt%: Si: 2.5 to 4.0 %, Mn: 0.1 to 1.0 %, Al: 0.5 to 1.5 %, P: 0.002 to 0.015 %, and As: 0.002 to 0.01 %, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, and satisfying Formula 1 and Formula 2.

[00001]$0.005\le \left(\left[\text{P}\right]+\left[\text{As}\right]\right)\le 0.015$

(In Formula 1, [P] and [As] represent a content (wt%) of P and As, respectively.)

[00002]$\left[\text{STD}\right]\le 0.7\times \left[\text{GS}\right]$

([GS] is an average grain size (.Math.m) measured when 10,000 or more grains having a grain size of 5 to 500 .Math.m are observed on a surface of the steel sheet, and STD is a standard deviation (.Math.m) at that time.)

A panel that is excellent in both appearance and dent resistance after being formed from a starting material is provided. The panel has a steel sheet including martensite, and a surface roughness parameter (Sa) at a flat part of a center-side portion of the panel is Sa≤0.500 μm. In laths of the martensite, the panel has precipitates having a major axis of 0.05 μm to 1.00 μm and an aspect ratio of 3 or more in an amount of 15 precipitates/μm.sup.2 or more. A ratio YS.sub.1/YS.sub.2 between a yield stress YS.sub.1 measured in a tensile test specimen cut out from the flat part of the center-side portion of the panel and a yield stress YS.sub.2 measured in a tensile test specimen cut out from an end part of the panel is 0.90 to 1.10.

This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a metallographic structure contains, by area %, more than 92.0% and 100.0% or less of martensite and tempered martensite in total, less than 3.0% of residual austenite, and less than 5.0% of ferrite, has a ratio S.sub.60/S.sub.7, which is a ratio of a density S.sub.60 of a length of a grain boundary having a crystal misorientation of 60° to a density S.sub.7 of a length of a grain boundary having a crystal misorientation of 7° about a <110> direction, of more than 0.34 and less than 0.60, has a standard deviation of a Mn concentration of 0.60 mass % or less, and has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.

This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a metallographic structure contains, by area %, more than 92.0% and 100.0% or less of martensite and tempered martensite in total, less than 3.0% of residual austenite, and less than 5.0% of ferrite, has a ratio S.sub.60/S.sub.7, which is a ratio of a density S.sub.60 of a length of a grain boundary having a crystal misorientation of 60° to a density S.sub.7 of a length of a grain boundary having a crystal misorientation of 7° about a <110> direction, of more than 0.34 and less than 0.60, has a standard deviation of a Mn concentration of 0.60 mass % or less, and has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.

A nickel-containing steel for low temperature according to an aspect of the present invention has a chemical composition within a predetermined range, in which a metallographic structure of a thickness middle portion contains 2.0 vol % to 20.0 vol % of an austenite phase, an average grain size of prior austenite grains is 3.0 μm to 15.0 μm, an average aspect ratio of the prior austenite grains is 1.0 to 2.4, a plate thickness is 4.5 mm to 30 mm, the chemical composition and the average grain size of the prior austenite grains are further limited depending on the plate thickness, a yield stress at room temperature is 460 MPa to 710 MPa, and a tensile strength at the room temperature is 560 MPa to 810 MPa.

A Ni steel has a chemical composition within a predetermined range, in which a metallographic structure of a thickness middle portion contains 2.0 vol % to 20.0 vol % of an austenite phase, an average grain size of prior austenite grains is 3.0 μm to 12.0 μm, an average aspect ratio of the prior austenite grains is 2.6 to 10.0, a plate thickness is 4.5 mm to 20 mm, a yield stress at room temperature is 590 MPa to 710 MPa, and a tensile strength at the room temperature is 690 MPa to 810 MPa, when the plate thickness is more than 16 mm, the Ni steel contains Ni: 11.5% or more, and when the plate thickness is 16 mm or less and the Ni steel contains Ni: less than 11.5%, the average grain size of the prior austenite grains is 6.0 μm or less.

With a hot-rolled steel sheet for electrical steel sheet production having a scale layer on the surface, where the surface of the steel sheet has a lightness L* as defined in JIS Z 8781-4: 2013 satisfying 30≤L*≤50, and chromaticities a* and b* as defined in JIS Z 8781-4: 2013 satisfying −1≤a*≤2 and −5≤b*≤3 respectively, and with one end portion in the longitudinal direction of a coil as a reference, a color difference ΔE.sub.ab* as defined in JIS Z 8781-4: 2013 at the central portion and at the opposite end portion satisfies ΔE.sub.ab*≤8, it is possible to obtain a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet where the variation of properties in a product coil is small.

With a hot-rolled steel sheet for electrical steel sheet production having a scale layer on the surface, where the surface of the steel sheet has a lightness L* as defined in JIS Z 8781-4: 2013 satisfying 30≤L*≤50, and chromaticities a* and b* as defined in JIS Z 8781-4: 2013 satisfying −1≤a*≤2 and −5≤b*≤3 respectively, and with one end portion in the longitudinal direction of a coil as a reference, a color difference ΔE.sub.ab* as defined in JIS Z 8781-4: 2013 at the central portion and at the opposite end portion satisfies ΔE.sub.ab*≤8, it is possible to obtain a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet where the variation of properties in a product coil is small.

Method for the manufacture of a galvannealed steel sheet includes the following steps: A) the provision of a pre-coated steel sheet coated with a first coating comprising iron and nickel, such steel sheet having the following chemical composition in weight percent 0.10<C<0.40%, 1.5<Mn<3.0%, 0.7<Si<2.0%, 0.05<Al<1.0%, 0.75<(Si+Al)<3.0% and on a purely optional basis, one or more elements such as Nb≤0.5%, B≤0.005%, Cr≤1.0%, Mo≤0.50%, Ni≤1.0%, Ti≤0.5%, the remainder of the composition making up of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the elaboration, B) the thermal treatment of such pre-coated steel sheet at a temperature between 600 to 1000° C., C) the hot-dip coating of the steel sheet obtained in step B) with a second coating based on zinc and D) an alloying treatment to form a galvannealed steel sheet.

Method for the manufacture of a galvannealed steel sheet includes the following steps: A) the provision of a pre-coated steel sheet coated with a first coating comprising iron and nickel, such steel sheet having the following chemical composition in weight percent 0.10<C<0.40%, 1.5<Mn<3.0%, 0.7<Si<2.0%, 0.05<Al<1.0%, 0.75<(Si+Al)<3.0% and on a purely optional basis, one or more elements such as Nb≤0.5%, B≤0.005%, Cr≤1.0%, Mo≤0.50%, Ni≤1.0%, Ti≤0.5%, the remainder of the composition making up of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the elaboration, B) the thermal treatment of such pre-coated steel sheet at a temperature between 600 to 1000° C., C) the hot-dip coating of the steel sheet obtained in step B) with a second coating based on zinc and D) an alloying treatment to form a galvannealed steel sheet.