High-strength steel sheet and production method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11643700-B2
Application number	US-201917043514-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 20, 2019
Priority date	Mar 30, 2018
Publication date	May 9, 2023
Grant date	May 9, 2023

Abstract

A high-strength steel includes a steel structure with: in area fraction, 60.0% to less than 90.0% of ferrite, 0% to less than 5.0% of unrecrystallized ferrite, 2.0% to 25.0% of martensite, 0% to 5.0% of carbide, and 0% to 3.0% of bainite; in volume fraction, more than 7.0% of retained austenite; in a cross-sectional view of 100 μm×100 μm, a value obtained by dividing number of retained austenite that are not adjacent to retained austenite whose crystal orientations are different by a total number of retained austenite being less than 0.80, an average crystal grain size of the ferrite being 6.0 μm or less, an average crystal grain size of the retained austenite being 3.0 μm or less, and a value obtained by dividing, by mass %, an average content of Mn in the retained austenite by an average content of Mn in steel being 1.50 or more.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A high-strength steel sheet comprising:
a component composition including: by mass %, 0.030% to 0.250% of C; 0.01% to 2.00% of Si; 2.00% or more and less than 3.10% of Mn; 0.001% to 0.100% of P; 0.0001% to 0.0200% of S; 0.0005% to 0.0100% of N; 0.001% to 1.200% of Al; and the balance Fe and inevitable impurities; and
a steel structure with:
in terms of area fraction, 60.0% or more and less than 90.0% of ferrite, 0% or more and less than 5.0% of unrecrystallized ferrite, 2.0% to 25.0% of martensite, 0% to 5.0% of carbide, and 0% to 3.0% of bainite;
in terms of volume fraction, more than 7.0% of retained austenite;
in a cross-sectional view of 100 μm×100 μm, a value obtained by dividing number of retained austenite that are not adjacent to retained austenite whose crystal orientations are different by a total number of retained austenite being less than 0.80,
an average crystal grain size of the ferrite being 6.0 μm or less,
an average crystal grain size of the retained austenite being 3.0 μm or less, and
a value obtained by dividing an average content, by mass %, of Mn in the retained austenite by an average content, by mass %, of Mn in steel being 1.50 or more,

wherein the high-strength steel sheet has a tensile strength of 690 MPa or more and less than 980 MPa.

2. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the component composition further includes: by mass %, at least one kind of element selected from: 0.002% to 0.200% of Ti; 0.005% to 0.200% of Nb; 0.005% to 0.500% of V; 0.0005% to 0.500% of W; 0.0003% to 0.0050% of B; 0.005% to 1.000% of Cr; 0.005% to 1.000% of Ni; 0.005% to 1.000% of Mo; 0.005% to 1.000% of Cu; 0.002% to 0.200% of Sn; 0.002% to 0.200% of Sb; 0.001% to 0.100% of Ta; 0.0005% to 0.0050% of Zr; 0.0005% to 0.0050% of Ca; 0.0005% to 0.0050% of Mg; and 0.0005% to 0.0050% of REM; and the balance Fe and inevitable impurities.

3. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein diffusible hydrogen in steel is 0.50 ppm by mass or less.

4. The high-strength steel sheet according to claim 2 , wherein diffusible hydrogen in steel is 0.50 ppm by mass or less.

Assignees

• Jfe Steel Corp

Inventors

• Kawasaki Yoshiyasu
• Endo Kazuki
• Toji Yuki
• Funakawa Yoshimasa
• Maeda Satoshi
• Aoyama Mai

Classifications

• C21D8/02

  during manufacturing of plates or strips (C21D8/12 takes precedence) · CPC title

• Y02P10/20

  Recycling · CPC title

• C21D6/005

  containing Mn · CPC title

• C23C2/06

  Zinc or cadmium or alloys based thereon · CPC title

• C21D2211/001

  Austenite · CPC title