High-strength steel sheet and method of manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11085107-B2
Application number	US-201616063728-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2016
Priority date	Dec 22, 2015
Publication date	Aug 10, 2021
Grant date	Aug 10, 2021

Abstract

A steel sheet has a composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.04% to 0.20%, Si: 0.6% to 1.5%, Mn: 1.0% to 3.0%, P: 0.10% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.010% or less, one, two, or all of Ti, Nb, and V in an amount of 0.01% to 1.0% each, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, 50% or more of ferrite, in which an average grain diameter at a position located 50 μm from a surface of the steel sheet in a thickness direction is 3000×(tensile strength TS (MPa))−0.85 μm or less, C precipitates having a grain diameter of less than 20 nm formed in steel is 0.010 mass % or more, and a amount of precipitated Fe is 0.03 mass % to 1.0 mass %, and a roughness Ra of 3.0 μm or less.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A high-strength steel sheet having a chemical composition containing, by mass %,
C: 0.04% to 0.20%,
Si: 0.6% to 1.5%,
Mn: 1.0% to 3.0%,
P: 0.10% or less,
S: 0.030% or less,
Al: 0.10% or less,
N: 0.010% or less,
one, two, or all of Ti, Nb, and V in an amount of 0.01% to 1.0% each, and
the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities,
a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, 50% or more of ferrite,
wherein an average grain diameter at a position located 50 μm from a surface of the steel sheet in a thickness direction is 3000×(tensile strength TS (MPa)) −0.85 μm or less,
a C content in precipitates having a grain diameter of less than 20 nm formed in steel is 0.010 mass % or more, and
an amount of precipitated Fe is 0.03 mass % to 1.0 mass %, where the amount of precipitated Fe is an amount of Fe precipitated in a form of cementite,
an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 3.0 μm or less, and
a value of critical bending radius/thickness is 3.0 or less.

2. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the chemical composition further contains, by mass %, at least one of groups (A) to (E):
(A) one, two, or all of Mo, Ta, and W in an amount of 0.005% to 0.50% each,
(B) one, two, or all of Cr, Ni, and Cu in an amount of 0.01% to 1.0% each,
(C) one or both of Ca and REM in an amount of 0.0005% to 0.01% each,
(D) Sb: 0.005% to 0.050%, and
(E) B: 0.0005% to 0.0030%.

3. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 , the steel sheet further comprising a coating layer on the surface thereof.

4. A method of manufacturing the high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
casting a steel slab having the chemical composition, reheating the steel slab to a temperature of 1200° C. or higher, optionally without reheating,
performing hot rolling on the steel slab in which descaling is performed with an impingement pressure of 3 MPa or more after rough rolling has been performed and before finish rolling is performed with an accumulated rolling reduction ratio of 0.7 or more in a temperature range of 950° C. or lower and a finishing delivery temperature of 800° C. or higher,
performing rapid water cooling with a maximum impingement pressure of 5 kPa or more at an average cooling rate of 30° C./s or more after finish rolling has been performed and before slow cooling is started,
performing slow cooling from a slow-cooling start temperature of 550° C. to 750° C. at an average cooling rate of less than 10° C./s for a slow-cooling time of 1 second to 10 seconds, further performing cooling to a coiling temperature of 350° C. or higher and lower than 530° C. at an average cooling rate of 10° C./s or more, and
performing coiling at a coiling temperature of 350° C. or higher and lower than 530° C.

5. The method according to claim 4 , the method further comprising performing pickling after the coiling has been performed.

6. The method according to claim 5 , the method further comprising performing a hot-dip coating treatment following annealing at a soaking temperature of 750° C. or lower after the pickling has been performed.

7. The method according to claim 6 , the method further comprising performing an alloying treatment at an alloying treatment temperature of 460° C. to 600° C. for a holding time of 1 second or more after the hot-dip coating treatment has been performed.

8. The method according to claim 5 , the method further comprising performing an electroplating treatment after the pickling has been performed.

9. The method according to claim 4 , the method further comprising processing with a thickness-decreasing ratio of 0.1% to 3.0% after the coiling, the pickling, the hot-dip coating treatment, the alloying treatment, or the electroplating treatment has been performed.

10. A method of manufacturing a high-strength steel sheet, the method comprising performing a coating treatment on the high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 .

11. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 2 , the steel sheet further having a coating layer on the surface thereof.

12. A method of manufacturing the high-strength steel sheet according to claim 2 , the method comprising:
casting a steel slab having the chemical composition, reheating the steel slab to a temperature of 1200° C. or higher, optionally without reheating,
performing hot rolling on the steel slab in which descaling is performed with an impingement pressure of 3 MPa or more after rough rolling has been performed and before finish rolling is performed with an accumulated rolling reduction ratio of 0.7 or more in a temperature range of 950° C. or lower and a finishing delivery temperature of 800° C. or higher, performing rapid water cooling with a maximum impingement pressure of 5 kPa or more at an average cooling rate of 30° C./s or more after finish rolling has been performed and before slow cooling is started,
performing slow cooling from a slow-cooling start temperature of 550° C. to 750° C. at an average cooling rate of less than 10° C./s for a slow-cooling time of 1 second to 10 seconds,
further performing cooling to a coiling temperature of 350° C. or higher and lower than 530° C. at an average cooling rate of 10° C./s or more, and performing coiling at a coiling temperature of 350 ° C. or higher and lower than 530 ° C.

13. The method according to claim 12 , further comprising performing pickling after the coiling has been performed.

14. The method according to claim 13 , further comprising performing a hot-dip coating treatment following annealing at a soaking temperature of 750° C. or lower after the pickling has been performed.

15. The method according to claim 14 , further comprising performing an alloying treatment at an alloying treatment temperature of 460° C. to 600° C. for a holding time of 1 second or more after the hot-dip coating treatment has been performed.

16. The method according to claim 13 , further comprising performing an electroplating treatment after the pickling has been performed.

Assignees

• Jfe Steel Corp

Inventors

• Kizu Taro
• Kido Akimasa
• Tadani Tetsushi

Classifications

• C21D8/0226 Primary

  Hot rolling · CPC title

• C23C2/28

  Thermal after-treatment, e.g. treatment in oil bath · CPC title

• C23C2/024

  by cleaning or etching · CPC title

• C23C2/0224

  Two or more thermal pretreatments · CPC title

• C23C2/02

  Pretreatment of the material to be coated, e.g. for coating on selected surface areas (C23C2/30 takes precedence) · CPC title