IP Library Granted Patent US 11,193,189
Granted Patent B2
US 11,193,189 · App. 16/469,942 · Granted Dec 7, 2021

Ultra-high strength steel sheet having excellent bendability and manufacturing method therefor

Inventors: Min-Seo Koo (Gwangyang-si, KR); Seong-Woo Kim (Gwangyang-si, KR)
Assignee: POSCO
C22C38/38C21D6/002C21D6/005C21D6/008C21D8/0205C21D8/0226C21D8/0236C21D8/0263C21D8/0273C21D9/46C21D9/52C22C38/001C22C38/02C22C38/06C22C38/22C22C38/24C22C38/26C22C38/28C22C38/32C23C2/06C21D2211/002C21D2211/005C21D2211/008
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Patent No.
US 11,193,189
App. No.
16/469,942
Granted
Dec 7, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is an ultra-high strength steel sheet used as a material of a vehicle and, more specifically, to an ultra-high strength steel sheet having excellent bendability and a manufacturing method therefor. There is an effect of providing a steel sheet by utilizing a continuous annealing furnace without having water quenching equipment, thereby simultaneously ensuring a tensile strength of 1200 MPa or greater compared with that of conventional super high strength martensite steel and having excellent shape and bending properties.

Claims (18)

1. An ultra-high strength steel sheet having bendability, the steel sheet comprising:

by wt%, 0.12 to 0.2% of C, 0.5% or less of Si excluding 0%, 2.5 to 4.0% of Mn, 0.03% or less of P excluding 0%, 0.015% or less of S excluding 0%, 0.1% or less of Al excluding 0%, 1.0% or less of Cr excluding 0%, 0.01% or less of N excluding 0%, and a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities,

wherein a microstructure of a surface layer region, the surface layer region being defined by a portion within 45 μm in a thickness direction from a surface, comprises ferrite of 50 to 70% by area fraction and residual martensite, and a content of carbon in the surface layer region is 0.12 wt % or less excluding 0 wt %, and

wherein a microstructure of a remaining region other than the surface layer region comprises martensite of 95% or higher and bainite and ferrite of 5% or less by area fraction, and wherein the steel sheet has tensile strength of 1200 MPa or higher, and a bendability index, R/t, of 4 or lower.

2. The ultra-high strength steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the steel sheet further comprises, by wt%, one or more of 0.005% or less of B excluding 0%, 0.1% or less of Mo excluding 0%, 0.1% or less of Ti excluding 0%, 0.1% or less of Nb excluding 0%, 0.1% or less of Zr excluding 0%, and 0.1% or less of V excluding 0%.

3. The ultra-high strength steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the steel sheet has tensile strength of 1200 MPa or higher, and a bendability index, R/t, of 4 or lower.

4. The ultra-high strength steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein the steel sheet is a cold-rolled steel sheet or a galvanized steel sheet.

5. A method of manufacturing an ultra-high strength steel sheet having excellent bendability, the method comprising:

reheating a steel slab at a temperature range of 1100 to 1300° C., the steel slab comprising, by wt%, 0.12 to 0.2% of C, 0.5% or less of Si excluding 0%, 2.5 to 4.0% of Mn, 0.03% or less of P excluding 0%, 0.015% or less of S excluding 0%, 0.1% or less of Al excluding 0%, 1.0% or less of Cr excluding 0%, 0.01% or less of N excluding 0%, and a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities;

finish-hot-rolling the reheated steel slab at a temperature range of Ar3 to 1000° C. to form a hot-rolled steel sheet;

coiling the hot-rolled steel sheet at 720° C. or lower;

cold-rolling the coiled hot-rolled steel sheet to form a cold-rolled steel sheet;

performing an annealing heat treatment on the cold-rolled steel sheet at a temperature range of Ac3 to 900° C. and at a dew point temperature of −10 to 30° C. to form an annealing heated cold-rolled steel sheet; and

cooling the annealing heated cold-rolled steel sheet at a cooling rate of 100° C./s or lower excluding 0° C./s to a temperature of 150° C. or less to form an annealed cold-rolled steel sheet.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the steel slab further comprises, by wt%, one or more of 0.005% or less of B excluding 0%, 0.1% or less of Mo excluding 0%, 0.1% or less of Ti excluding 0%, 0.1% or less of Nb excluding 0%, 0.1% or less of Zr excluding 0%, and 0.1% or less of V excluding 0%.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the coiling is performed at Ms or higher.

8. The method of claim 5 , wherein, during the annealing heat treatment, decarburization occurs in a surface layer region, the surface layer region being defined by a portion within 45 μm in a thickness direction from a surface of the cold-rolled steel sheet, and after the annealing heat treatment, a content of carbon in the surface layer region is 0.12 wt % or less.

9. The method of claim 5 , further comprising: forming a hot-dip galvanized layer by submersing the annealed cold-rolled steel sheet in a zinc plating bath after the cooling.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2022
From: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.
To: POSCO CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 061778/0785 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 28, 2022
From: POSCO
To: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.
Reel/Frame 061561/0923 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 14, 2019
From: KOO, MIN-SEO; KIM, SEONG-WOO
To: POSCO
Reel/Frame 049473/0297 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2016-0173552 · Dec 19, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190368015A1 · Dec 5, 2019