Abrasion resistant steel plate or steel sheet excellent in resistance to stress corrosion cracking and method for manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9938599-B2
Application number	US-201214008169-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2012
Priority date	Mar 29, 2011
Publication date	Apr 10, 2018
Grant date	Apr 10, 2018

Abstract

An abrasion resistant steel plate or steel sheet suitable for use in construction machines, industrial machines, and the like and a method for manufacturing the same. In particular, a steel plate or steel sheet has a composition containing 0.20% to 0.30% C, 0.05% to 1.0% Si, 0.40% to 1.20% Mn, P, S, 0.1% or less Al, 0.01% or less N, and 0.0003% to 0.0030% B on a mass basis, the composition further containing one or more of Cr, Mo, and W, the composition further containing one or more of Nb, Ti, Cu, Ni, V, an REM, Ca, and Mg as required, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. A semi-finished product having the above steel composition is heated, hot rolling is performed, air cooling is performed, reheating is performed, and accelerated cooling is then performed or accelerated cooling is performed immediately after hot rolling.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A steel plate or steel sheet having a chemical composition comprising:
0.20% to 0.30% C, by mass %;
0.05% to 1.0% Si, by mass %;
0.40% to 1.20% Mn, by mass %;
0.015% or less P, by mass %;
0.005% or less S, by mass %;
0.1% or less Al, by mass %;
0.01% or less N, by mass %;
0.0003% to 0.0030% B, by mass %;
one or more of 0.05% to 1.5% Cr, by mass %, 0.05% to 1.0% Mo, by mass %, and 0.05% to 1.0% W, by mass %; and
Fe and incidental impurities, the steel plate or steel sheet having (i) a microstructure having a base phase or main phase that is tempered martensite, wherein cementite having a grain size of 0.05 μm or less in terms of equivalent circle diameter is present at 2×10 6 grains/mm 2 or more, and (ii) a hardenability index DI* of 45 or more as represented by Equation (1),
DI*= 33.85×(0.1× C ) 0.5 ×(0.7× Si+ 1)×(3.33× Mn+ 1)×(0.35× Cu+ 1)×(0.36× Ni+ 1)×(2.16× Cr+ 1)×(3× Mo+ 1)×(1.75× V+ 1)×(1.5× W+ 1)  (1)

where each alloy element symbol represents the content, by mass %, and is 0 when not present,
wherein an average grain size of the tempered martensite is 20 μm or less in terms of equivalent circle diameter.

2. The steel plate or steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the chemical composition further comprises one or more of 0.005% to 0.025% Nb, by mass %, and 0.008% to 0.020% Ti, by mass %.

3. The steel plate or steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the chemical composition further comprises one or more of 1.5% or less Cu, by mass %, 2.0% or less Ni, by mass %, and 0.1% or less V, by mass %.

4. The steel plate or steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the chemical composition further comprises one or more of 0.008% or less of an REM, by mass %, 0.005% or less Ca, by mass %, and 0.005% or less Mg, by mass %.

5. The steel plate or steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein a surface hardness of the steel plate or steel sheet is in the range of 400 to 520 HBW 10/3000 in terms of Brinell hardness.

6. A method for manufacturing a steel plate or steel sheet, the method comprising:
heating a steel material having a chemical composition comprising:
0.20% to 0.30% C, by mass %;
0.05% to 1.0% Si, by mass %;
0.40% to 1.20% Mn, by mass %;
0.015% or less P, by mass %;
0.005% or less S, by mass %;
0.1% or less Al, by mass %;
0.01% or less N, by mass %;
0.0003% to 0.0030% B, by mass %;
one or more of 0.05% to 1.5% Cr, by mass %, 0.05% to 1.0% Mo, by mass %, and 0.05% to 1.0% W, by mass %; and
Fe and incidental impurities, the steel plate or steel sheet having (i) a microstructure having a base phase or main phase that is tempered martensite, wherein cementite having a grain size of 0.05 μm or less in terms of equivalent circle diameter is present at 2×10 6 grains/mm 2 or more, and (ii) a hardenability index DI* of 45 or more as represented by Equation (1),
DI*= 33.85×(0.1× C ) 0.5 ×(0.7× Si+ 1)×(3.33× Mn+ 1)×(0.35× Cu+ 1)×(0.36× Ni+ 1)×(2.16× Cr+ 1)×(3× Mo+ 1)×(1.75× V+ 1)×(1.5× W+ 1)   (1)

where each alloy element symbol represents the content, by mass %, and is 0 when not present, to a temperature in the range of 1,000° C. to 1,200° C.;

performing hot rolling on the steel material to form a steel plate or steel sheet;
performing reheating on the steel plate or steel sheet at a temperature in the range of Ac3 to 950° C.;
performing accelerated cooling on the steel plate or steel sheet at a rate in the range of 1° C./s to 100° C./s;
stopping accelerated cooling on the steel plate or steel sheet at a temperature in the range of 100° C. to 300° C.; and
then performing air cooling on the steel plate or steel sheet
wherein an average grain size of the tempered martensite is 20 μm or less in terms of equivalent circle diameter.

7. The steel plate or steel sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the microstructure includes 10 area % or less of untempered martensite.

8. The method for manufacturing the steel plate or steel sheet according to claim 6 , further comprising performing reheating on the steel plate or steel sheet to a temperature in the range of 100° C. to 300° C. after air cooling.

9. A method for manufacturing a steel plate or steel sheet, the method comprising:
heating a steel material having a chemical composition comprising:
0.20% to 0.30% C, by mass %;
0.05% to 1.0% Si, by mass %;
0.40% to 1.20% Mn, by mass %;
0.015% or less P, by mass %;
0.005% or less S, by mass %;
0.1% or less Al, by mass %;
0.01% or less N, by mass %;
0.0003% to 0.0030% B, by mass %;
one or more of 0.05% to 1.5% Cr, by mass %, 0.05% to 1.0% Mo, by mass %, and 0.05% to 1.0% W, by mass %; and
Fe and incidental impurities, the steel plate or steel sheet having (i) a microstructure having a base phase or main phase that is tempered martensite, wherein cementite having a grain size of 0.05 μm or less in terms of equivalent circle diameter is present at 2×10 6 grains/mm 2 or more, and (ii) a hardenability index DI* of 45 or more as represented by Equation (1),
DI*= 33.85×(0.1× C ) 0.5 ×(0.7× Si+ 1)×(3.33× Mn+ 1)×(0.35× Cu+ 1)×(0.36× Ni+ 1)×(2.16× Cr+ 1)×(3× Mo+ 1)×(1.75× V+ 1)×(1.5× W+ 1)   (1)

where each alloy element symbol represents the content, by mass %, and is 0 when not present, to a temperature in the range of 1,000° C. to 1,200° C.;

performing hot rolling on the steel material at a temperature in the range of Ar3 or higher to form a steel plate or steel sheet;
performing accelerated cooling on the steel plate or steel sheet from a temperature in the range of Ar3 to 950° C. at a rate in the range of 1° C./s to 100° C./s;
stopping accelerated cooling on the steel plate or steel sheet at a temperature in the range of 100° C. to 300° C.; and
performing air cooling on the steel plate or steel sheet
wherein an average grain size of the tempered martensite is 20 μm or less in terms of equivalent circle diameter.

10. The method for manufacturing the steel plate or steel sheet according to claim 9 , further comprising performing reheating on the steel plate or steel sheet to a temperature in the range of 100° C. to 300° C. after air cooling.

11. The method for manufacturing the steel plate or steel sheet according to claim 6 , wherein prior to the reheating process, performing cooling to 300° C. or lower.

Assignees

• Ueda Keiji
• Ishikawa Nobuyuki
• Jfe Steel Corp

Inventors

• Ueda Keiji
• Ishikawa Nobuyuki

Classifications

• C21D8/0463

  following hot rolling · CPC title

• C22C38/18

  containing chromium · CPC title

• C22C38/50

  with titanium or zirconium · CPC title

• C22C38/20

  with copper · CPC title

• C22C38/06

  containing aluminium · CPC title