Steel sheet, member, and method for producing them

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12098439-B2
Application number	US-202117915739-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 25, 2021
Priority date	Mar 31, 2020
Publication date	Sep 24, 2024
Grant date	Sep 24, 2024

Abstract

A steel sheet having a tensile strength (TS) of 1180 MPa or more, high LME resistance, and good weld fatigue properties. The steel sheet has a specific chemical composition and a specific steel microstructure. Crystal grains containing an oxide of Si and/or Mn in a region within 4.9 μm in a thickness direction from a surface of the steel sheet have an average grain size in the range of 3 to 10 μm, the lowest Si concentration L Si and the lowest Mn concentration L Mn in the region within 4.9 μm in the thickness direction from the surface of the steel sheet and a Si concentration T Si and a Mn concentration T Mn at a quarter thickness position of the steel sheet satisfy a specified formula.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A steel sheet having a chemical composition comprising, by mass %:
Si: 0.3% to 2.0%;
Mn: 2.70% or more and less than 4.0%;
C: 0.12% to 0.40%;
P: 0.05% or less;
S: 0.02% or less;
Al: 0.01% to 2.0%;
N: 0.01% or less;
at least one selected from the group consisting of Nb: 0.50% or less, Cr: 1.0% or less, Mo: 0.50% or less, B: 0.005% or less, and Ti: 0.05% or less;
at least one selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ni, Sn, As, Sb, Ca, Mg, Pb, Co, Ta, W, REM, Zn, V, Sr, Cs, Hf, and Zr, in a total amount of 0.1% or less;
optionally an equivalent carbon content Ceq in a range of 0.659% or more; and
the remainder being Fe and incidental impurities,
wherein the steel sheet has a steel microstructure including a total area fraction of bainite and tempered martensite in a range of 50% to 75%, a fresh martensite area fraction in a range of 5% to 15%, a retained austenite area fraction in a range of 8% to 20%, and a ferrite area fraction in a range of 3% to 20%,
a total fraction of the fresh martensite and the retained austenite adjacent to the ferrite is 90% or less of a total area fraction of the fresh martensite and the retained austenite,
an average grain size of all crystal grains containing one or more granular oxides of at least one of Si and Mn in the grains in a region within 4.9 μm in a thickness direction from a surface of the steel sheet is in a range of 3 to 10 μm,
the following formula (1) is satisfied:
L Si +L Mn ≤( T Si +T Mn )/5  (1)

where L si is a lowest Si concentration and L Mn is a lowest Mn concentration in the region within 4.9 μm in the thickness direction from the surface of the steel sheet, and T si is a Si concentration and T Mn is a Mn concentration at a quarter thickness position of the steel sheet, and

the steel sheet has a tensile strength (TS) of 1180 MPa or more.

2. The steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the steel sheet comprises a soft layer with a thickness in a range of 1.0 to 50.0 μm in the thickness direction from the surface of the steel sheet, the soft layer being a region with hardness corresponding to 65% or less of the hardness at a quarter thickness position from the surface of the steel sheet.

3. The steel sheet according to claim 2 , wherein the steel sheet comprises a hot-dip galvanized layer or a hot-dip galvannealed layer on the surface of the steel sheet.

4. A member produced by performing at least one of forming and welding on the steel sheet according to claim 3 .

5. A member produced by performing at least one of forming and welding on the steel sheet according to claim 2 .

6. The steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the steel sheet comprises a hot-dip galvanized layer or a hot-dip galvannealed layer on a surface of the steel sheet.

7. A member produced by performing at least one of forming and welding on the steel sheet according to claim 6 .

8. A member produced by performing at least one of forming and welding on the steel sheet according to claim 1 .

9. A method for producing a steel sheet according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
a hot-rolling step of hot-rolling a steel slab with the chemical composition at a cumulative strain in a range of 0.10 to 0.80 in final two rolling stages followed by coiling at a coiling temperature in a range of 470° C. to 800° C.;
a cold-rolling step of cold-rolling a hot-rolled steel sheet formed in the hot-rolling step;
an annealing step of holding a cold-rolled steel sheet formed in the cold-rolling step at a dew-point temperature in a range of −50° C. to 0° C. and at an annealing temperature in a range of 750° C. to 900° C., cooling the cold-rolled steel sheet to a cooling stop temperature in a range of 150° C. to 340° C., and bending and unbending the cold-rolled steel sheet three to eight times in total with a roller having a radius in a range of 100 to 1000 mm while cooling from the annealing temperature to the cooling stop temperature;
a reheating step of reheating the steel sheet after the annealing step to a reheating temperature in a range of 350° C. to 600° C. and holding the reheating temperature; and
optionally a plating step of performing hot-dip galvanizing or hot-dip galvannealing on the steel sheet after the reheating step.

10. A method for producing a member, the method comprising the step of performing at least one of forming and welding on the steel sheet produced by the method for producing a steel sheet according to claim 9 .

11. A method for producing a steel sheet according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
a hot-rolling step of hot-rolling a steel slab with the chemical composition at a cumulative strain in a range of 0.10 to 0.80 in final two rolling stages followed by coiling at a coiling temperature in a range of 470° C. to 800° C.;
a cold-rolling step of cold-rolling a hot-rolled steel sheet formed in the hot-rolling step;
an annealing step of holding a cold-rolled steel sheet formed in the cold-rolling step at a dew-point temperature in a range of −50° C. to 0° C. and at an annealing temperature in a range of 750° C. to 900° C., cooling the cold-rolled steel sheet to a cooling stop temperature in a range of 350° C. to 500° C., and bending and unbending the cold-rolled steel sheet three to eight times in total with a roller having a radius in a range of 100 to 1000 mm while cooling from the annealing temperature to the cooling stop temperature;
a plating step of performing hot-dip galvanizing or hot-dip galvannealing on the steel sheet after the annealing step; and
a reheating step of cooling the steel sheet after the plating step to a cooling stop temperature in a range of 50° C. to 350° C., reheating the steel sheet to a reheating temperature exceeding the cooling stop temperature and in a range of 300° C. to 500° C., and holding the reheating temperature.

12. A method for producing a member, the method comprising the step of performing at least one of forming and welding on the steel sheet produced by the method for producing a steel sheet according to claim 11 .

13. A steel sheet having a chemical composition comprising, by mass %:
Si: 0.3% to 2.0%;
Mn: 2.70% or more and less than 4.0%;
C: 0.12% to 0.40%;
P: 0.05% or less;
S: 0.02% or less;
Al: 0.01% to 2.0%;
N: 0.01% or less;
at least one selected from the group consisting of Nb: 0.50% or less, Cr: 1.0% or less, Mo: 0.50% or less, B: 0.005% or less, and Ti: 0.05% or less;
at least one selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ni, Sn, As, Sb, Ca, Mg, Pb, Co, Ta, W, REM, Zn, V, Sr, Cs, Hf, and Zr, in a total amount of 0.1% or less;
optionally an equivalent carbon content Ceq in a range of 0.659% or more; and
the remainder being Fe and incidental impurities,
wherein the steel sheet has a steel microstructure including a total area fraction of bainite and tempered martensite in a range of 50% to 75%, a fresh martensite area fraction in a range of 5% to 15%, a retained austenite area fraction in a range of 8% to 20%, and a ferrite area fraction in a range of 3% to 20%,
a total fraction of the fresh martensite and the retained austenite adjacent to the ferrite is 90% or less of a total area fraction of the fresh martensite and the retained austenite,
an average grain size of all crystal grains containing one or more granular oxides of at least one of Si and Mn in the grains in a region within 15.0 μm in a thickness direction from a surface of the steel sheet is in a range of 3 to 10 μm,
the following formula (1) is satisfied:
L Si +L Mn ≤( T Si +T Mn )/5  (1)

where L si is a lowest Si concentration and L Mn is a lowest Mn concentration in the region withi

Assignees

• Jfe Steel Corp

Inventors

• Yang Lingling
• Kawasaki Yoshiyasu
• Nakagaito Tatsuya
• TERASHIMA Shotaro
• Yamamoto Shunsuke
• Hoshino Katsuya
• Takeda Yuki

Classifications

• C21D8/02

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

• Y10T428/24983

  Hardness · CPC title

• Y10T428/12965

  Both containing 0.01-1.7% carbon [i.e., steel] · CPC title

• C23C28/021

  including at least one metal alloy layer · CPC title

• Y10T428/12958

  Next to Fe-base component · CPC title