Patent classifications
C22C38/18
PANEL
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.
Cold-rolled steel sheet having excellent high-temperature properties and room-temperature workability
The present disclosure provides a cold-rolled steel sheet having excellent high-temperature properties and room-temperature workability, including, by weight: carbon (C): 0.0005 to 0.003%, manganese (Mn): 0.20 to 0.50%, aluminum (Al): 0.01 to 0.10%, phosphorus (P): 0.003 to 0.020%, nitrogen (N): 0.0005 to 0.004%, sulfur (S): 0.015% or less, niobium (Nb): 0.005 to 0.040%, chromium (Cr): 0.10 to 0.50%, tungsten (W): 0.02 to 0.07%, and a balance of iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities, wherein C, Nb, and W satisfy the following relationship 1, a microstructure comprises 95 area % or more of polygonal ferrite and 5 area % or less of acicular ferrite, and the cold-rolled steel sheet comprises (Nb,W)C-based precipitates having an average size of 0.005 to 0.10 μm and a method for manufacturing the same:
0.00025≤(2×Nb/93)×(W/184)/(C/12)≤0.0015 [Relationship 1]
where, C, Nb, and W are in weight %.
Cold-rolled steel sheet having excellent high-temperature properties and room-temperature workability
The present disclosure provides a cold-rolled steel sheet having excellent high-temperature properties and room-temperature workability, including, by weight: carbon (C): 0.0005 to 0.003%, manganese (Mn): 0.20 to 0.50%, aluminum (Al): 0.01 to 0.10%, phosphorus (P): 0.003 to 0.020%, nitrogen (N): 0.0005 to 0.004%, sulfur (S): 0.015% or less, niobium (Nb): 0.005 to 0.040%, chromium (Cr): 0.10 to 0.50%, tungsten (W): 0.02 to 0.07%, and a balance of iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities, wherein C, Nb, and W satisfy the following relationship 1, a microstructure comprises 95 area % or more of polygonal ferrite and 5 area % or less of acicular ferrite, and the cold-rolled steel sheet comprises (Nb,W)C-based precipitates having an average size of 0.005 to 0.10 μm and a method for manufacturing the same:
0.00025≤(2×Nb/93)×(W/184)/(C/12)≤0.0015 [Relationship 1]
where, C, Nb, and W are in weight %.
Hot press-formed part, and manufacturing method thereof
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.
Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and method for producing the same
A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent iron loss property is produced from a steel slab containing, by mass %, C: 0.002-0.15%, Si: 2.5-6.0%, Mn: 0.01-0.80%, Al: 0.010-0.050% and N: 0.003-0.020%, when: a heating rate between 500-700° C. in decarburization annealing is not less than 80° C./s, a surface roughness Ra of a work roll in final cold rolling is 0.01-3.0 μm, a total content of alkaline earth metals to MgO in annealing separator is 0-5 mass %, an average length L in rolling direction of passed crystal grains is not more than 25 mm, a ratio of crystal grains having a length in rolling direction of not more than 5 mm is 40-90%, and an existence ratio of alkaline earth metal sulfides having a size corresponding to circle of not less than 0.5 μm in a cross section of forsterite film is not more than 0.2/μm per unit length in sheet width direction.
Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet and method for producing the same
A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent iron loss property is produced from a steel slab containing, by mass %, C: 0.002-0.15%, Si: 2.5-6.0%, Mn: 0.01-0.80%, Al: 0.010-0.050% and N: 0.003-0.020%, when: a heating rate between 500-700° C. in decarburization annealing is not less than 80° C./s, a surface roughness Ra of a work roll in final cold rolling is 0.01-3.0 μm, a total content of alkaline earth metals to MgO in annealing separator is 0-5 mass %, an average length L in rolling direction of passed crystal grains is not more than 25 mm, a ratio of crystal grains having a length in rolling direction of not more than 5 mm is 40-90%, and an existence ratio of alkaline earth metal sulfides having a size corresponding to circle of not less than 0.5 μm in a cross section of forsterite film is not more than 0.2/μm per unit length in sheet width direction.
HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL SHEET HAVING EXCELLENT DELAYED FRACTURE RESISTANCE
A high-strength steel sheet with excellent delayed fracture resistance, having a tensile strength of 1700 MPa or larger, including a predetermined component composition, having a martensite structure whose ratio accounts for 95 area % or more of the entire metallographic structure, and having a transition metal carbide whose ratio accounts for 0.8 volume % or more of the entire metallographic structure.
STEEL SHEET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
A steel sheet includes a predetermined composition, in which a microstructure at a ¼ thickness position from a surface in a sheet thickness direction includes, by vol %, ferrite: 80% or more, martensite: 2% or less, and residual austenite: 2% or less, a proportion of unrecrystallized ferrite in the ferrite of 5% or less, and in the microstructure of the steel sheet stretched by 10% at the ¼ thickness position from the surface in the sheet thickness direction, a number density of voids having a maximum diameter of 1.0 μm or more is 1.0×10.sup.9 pieces/m.sup.2 or less.
METHOD OF MAKING A COLD FORMABLE HIGH STRENGTH STEEL STRIP AND STEEL STRIP
A method of manufacturing steel strip including the steps of: casting molten steel into slabs; reheating the slabs at 1150° C. or more for 1 hour or more; hot rolling the steel into a strip, preferably with an average F1 slab entry temperature above 1000° C.; coiling the hot rolled steel strip; batch annealing the steel strip: at an intercritical temperature (i.e. between Ac1 and Ac3), preferably below 700° C.; in non-oxidising and non-nitrogenated atmosphere; total annealing time at least 5 hours, preferably at least 10 hours to get Mn enrichment in austenite such that Mn content is at least 1.25 times bulk Mn content of the steel and C enrichment such that C content is at least 1.2 times bulk C content of the steel; cooling the steel after batch annealing in air, forced air or water quench.
GRAIN-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR
A method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: heating a slab, based on 100 wt % of a total composition thereof, including N at 0.0005 wt % to 0.015 wt %, Ti at 0.0001 wt % to 0.020 wt %, V at 0.0001 wt % to 0.020 wt %, Nb at 0.0001 wt % to 0.020 wt %, B at 0.0001 wt % to 0.020 wt %, and the remaining portion including Fe and other impurities, and then hot rolling it to prepare a hot-rolled steel sheet; annealing the hot-rolled steel sheet; after the hot-rolled steel sheet is annealed, cooling the hot-rolled steel sheet, and then cold rolling it to prepare a cold-rolled steel sheet; decarburization-annealing the cold-rolled steel sheet and then nitriding-annealing it, or simultaneously performing the decarburization-annealing and the nitriding-annealing; and final-annealing the decarburization-annealed and nitriding-annealed steel sheet.