IP Library Granted Patent US 11,608,549
Granted Patent B2
US 11,608,549 · App. 16/763,061 · Granted Mar 21, 2023

Cryogenic steel plate and method for manufacturing same

Inventor: Hak-Cheol Lee (Pohang-si, KR)
Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
C22C38/08C21D1/18C21D8/0205C21D8/0226C21D9/46C22C38/02C22C38/04C21D2211/001C21D2211/002C21D2211/008
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Patent No.
US 11,608,549
App. No.
16/763,061
Granted
Mar 21, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a cryogenic steel plate and a method for manufacturing the same, the cryogenic steel plate comprising, in wt %, 0.04 to 0.08% carbon (C), 8.9 to 9.3% nickel (Ni), 0.6 to 0.7% manganese (Mn), and 0.2 to 0.3% silicon (Si), and 50 ppm or less of P, 10 ppm or less of S, and the remainder in iron (Fe) and various unavoidable impurities, and the microstructure at a ¼t location of the steel plate, where t is a thickness of the steel plate, comprising, in % surface area, 10% or more of tempered bainite, 10% or less of residual austenite, and the remainder of tempered martensite.

Claims (15)

1. A cryogenic steel plate comprising, in wt %: 0.04 to 0.08% of carbon (C), 8.9 to 9.3% of nickel (Ni), 0.6 to 0.7% of manganese (Mn), 0.2 to 0.3% of silicon (Si), 50 ppm or less of P, 10 ppm or less of S, and a remainder in iron (Fe) and various unavoidable impurities,

wherein a thickness, t, of the steel plate is 10 to 20 mm, and

wherein a microstructure at a ¼t location of the steel plate includes, in % surface area, 10% to 30% of tempered bainite, 3 to 10% of residual austenite, and a remainder of tempered martensite.

2. The cryogenic steel plate of claim 1 , wherein the steel plate is a cryogenic steel plate manufactured by tempering after direct quenching a steel plate, and a microstructure of the steel plate prior to tempering after direct quenching comprises, in % surface area, 10% or more of bainite, in a martensitic matrix, and an average prior austenite grain size of the microstructure of the steel plate after the direct quenching is 30 μm or less.

3. The cryogenic steel plate of claim 2 , wherein the bainite fraction is 10 to 30%.

4. The cryogenic steel plate of claim 1 , consisting of, in wt %: 0.04 to 0.08% of carbon (C), 8.9 to 9.3% of nickel (Ni), 0.6 to 0.7% of manganese (Mn), 0.2 to 0.3% of silicon (Si), 50 ppm or less of P, 10 ppm or less of S, and a remainder in iron (Fe) and various unavoidable impurities.

5. A method for manufacturing a cryogenic steel plate comprising operations of:

heating a steel slab including, in wt %, 0.04 to 0.08% of carbon (C), 8.9 to 9.3% of nickel (Ni), 0.6 to 0.7% of manganese (Mn), 0.2 to 0.3% of silicon (Si), 50 ppm or less of P, 10 ppm or less of S, and a remainder in iron (Fe) and various unavoidable impurities, and then finish hot rolling at a temperature of 900° C. or less to obtain a steel plate having a thickness of 10 to 20 mm;

direct quenching of cooling the steel plate at a cooling rate of 35.6 to 40° C./ sec; and

tempering the steel plate directly quenched as described above at a temperature of 580 to 600° C. for a time of 1.9 t, where t is a steel thickness in mm, +40 to 80 minutes,

wherein a microstructure of the steel plate prior to the tempering operation after the direct quenching operation comprises, in surface area %, 10% to 30% of bainite in a martensite matrix,

wherein after the tempering operation, a microstructure at a ¼t location of the steel plate includes, in % surface area, 10% to 30% of tempered bainite, 3 to 10% of residual austenite, and a remainder of tempered martensite.

6. The method for manufacturing the cryogenic steel plate of claim 5 , wherein the steel slab has a heating temperature of 1100 to 1200° C.

7. The method for manufacturing the cryogenic steel plate of claim 5 , wherein the finish hot rolling temperature is 700 to 900° C.

8. The method for manufacturing the cryogenic steel plate of claim 5 , wherein an average prior austenite grain size of the microstructure is 30 μm or less.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2022
From: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.
To: POSCO CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 061774/0129 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 28, 2022
From: POSCO
To: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.
Reel/Frame 061561/0705 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 12, 2020
From: LEE, HAK-CHEOL
To: POSCO
Reel/Frame 052633/0013 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2017-0154083 · Nov 17, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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