Steel sheet and method for producing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12173380-B2
Application number	US-202118035066-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 24, 2021
Priority date	Jan 7, 2021
Publication date	Dec 24, 2024
Grant date	Dec 24, 2024

Abstract

This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and includes, as a metallographic structure, ferrite, bainite, and pearlite in a total volume percentage of 0% or more and 50% or less, residual austenite in a volume percentage of 3% or more and 20% or less, and a remainder of fresh martensite and tempered martensite, in which residual austenite having an aspect ratio of 3.0 or more occupies 80% or more of a total residual austenite by area ratio, the steel sheet includes an internal oxide layer having a thickness of 4.0 μm or more from a surface of the steel sheet and a decarburized layer having a thickness of 10 μm or more and 100 μm or less from the surface of the steel sheet, and an amount of diffusible hydrogen included in the steel sheet is 1.00 ppm or less on a mass basis.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A steel sheet comprising, as a chemical composition, by mass %:
C: 0.10% to 0.40%;
Si: 0.10% to 1.20%;
Al: 0.30% to 1.50%;
Mn: 1.0% to 4.0%;
P: 0.0200% or less;
S: 0.0200% or less;
N: 0.0200% or less;
O: 0.0200% or less;
Ni: 0% to 1.00%;
Mo: 0% to 0.50%;
Cr: 0% to 2.00%;
Ti: 0% to 0.100%;
B: 0% to 0.0100%;
Nb: 0% to 0.10%;
V: 0% to 0.50%;
Cu: 0% to 0.50%;
W: 0% to 0.10%;
Ta: 0% to 0.100%;
Co: 0% to 0.50%;
Mg: 0% to 0.050%;
Ca: 0% to 0.0500%;
Y: 0% to 0.050%;
Zr: 0% to 0.050%;
La: 0% to 0.0500%;
Ce: 0% to 0.050%;
Sn: 0% to 0.05%;
Sb: 0% to 0.050%;
As: 0% to 0.050%; and
a remainder of Fe and impurities,
wherein the steel sheet includes, as a metallographic structure,
ferrite, bainite, and pearlite in a total volume percentage of 0% or more and 50% or less,
residual austenite in a volume percentage of 3% or more and 20% or less, and
a remainder of one or two of fresh martensite and tempered martensite,

residual austenite having an aspect ratio of 3.0 or more occupies 80% or more of a total residual austenite by area ratio,
the steel sheet includes an internal oxide layer that is present from a surface of the steel sheet to a depth of at least 4.0 μm and a decarburized layer that is present from a surface of the steel sheet to a depth of 10 μm or more and 100 μm or less, and
an amount of diffusible hydrogen included in the steel sheet is 1.00 ppm or less on a mass basis.

2. The steel sheet according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a hot-dip galvanized layer on the surface.

3. The steel sheet according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a hot-dip galvannealed layer on the surface.

4. A method for producing a steel sheet comprising:
a hot rolling process of performing hot rolling on a slab having the chemical composition according to claim 1 to obtain a hot-rolled steel sheet;
a coiling process of cooling the hot-rolled steel sheet at a cooling rate of 5° C./s or faster and coiling the hot-rolled steel sheet at 400° C. or lower;
a cold rolling process of pickling the hot-rolled steel sheet after the coiling and performing cold rolling on the hot-rolled steel sheet at a rolling reduction of 0.5% or more and 20.0% or less to obtain a cold-rolled steel sheet;
a hydrogen content reducing process of leaving the cold-rolled steel sheet in air for a time of 1 hour or longer when T is 40° C. or higher, and when T is less than 40° C. leaving the cold-rolled steel sheet in air for a time t represented by Expression (1) or longer:
t=− 2.4× T+ 96  (1)

where T is an average temperature (C) during the time when the cold-rolled steel sheet is left in the air; and
an annealing process of annealing the cold-rolled steel sheet after the hydrogen content reducing process,
wherein the annealing process includes
subjecting the cold-rolled steel sheet to bending and bending back at 150° C. to 400° C.,
heating the cold-rolled steel sheet in an atmosphere having a dew point of −20° C. to 20° C., and containing 0.1 to 30.0 vol % of hydrogen and a remainder comprising nitrogen and impurities,
holding the cold-rolled steel sheet after the heating at a holding temperature of Ac1° C. to Ac3° C. for 1 second or longer and 1000 seconds or shorter,
cooling the cold-rolled steel sheet after the holding to 100° C. to 340° C. at an average cooling rate of 4° C./s or faster, and
reheating the cold-rolled steel sheet after the cooling and holding the cold-rolled steel sheet at 350° C. or higher and 480° C. or lower for 80 seconds or longer.

5. The method for producing a steel sheet according to claim 4 , further comprising:
controlling the cold-rolled steel sheet after the annealing to a temperature range of (molten zinc bath temperature−40)° C. to (molten zinc bath temperature+50° C.) and immersing the cold-rolled steel sheet in a hot-dip galvanizing bath to form a hot-dip galvanized plating layer on a surface of the cold-rolled steel sheet.

6. The method for producing a steel sheet according to claim 5 , further comprising:
heating the hot-dip galvanized steel sheet to a temperature range of 300° C. to 500° C. to alloy the plating layer.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel Corp

Inventors

• Tsukamoto Eriko
• Takeda Kengo

Classifications

• C21D8/02

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

• C23C2/40

  Plates; Strips · CPC title

• C23C2/06

  Zinc or cadmium or alloys based thereon · CPC title

• C22C38/06

  containing aluminium · CPC title

• C22C38/04

  containing manganese · CPC title