IP Library Granted Patent US 12,037,656
Granted Patent B2
US 12,037,656 · App. 17/297,733 · Granted Jul 16, 2024

High strength steel sheet having excellent ductility and workability, and method for manufacturing same

Inventors: Jae-Hoon Lee (Gwangyang-si, KR); Sang-Ho Han (Gwangyang-si, KR)
Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
C21D9/46C21D6/002C21D6/005C21D6/008C21D8/0205C21D8/0226C21D8/0236C21D8/0263C22C38/001C22C38/002C22C38/005C22C38/008C22C38/06C22C38/22C22C38/24C22C38/26C22C38/28C22C38/30C22C38/32C22C38/34C22C38/38C22C38/60C21D2211/001C21D2211/002C21D2211/008
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Patent No.
US 12,037,656
App. No.
17/297,733
Granted
Jul 16, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a steel sheet that can be used for automobile parts or the like, and relates to a steel sheet having an excellent balance of strength and ductility, and excellent workability, and a method for manufacturing same.

Claims (32)

1. A steel sheet comprising; by weight %, carbon (C): more than 0.25% to 0.75%, silicon (Si): 4.0% or less, manganese (Mn): 0.9 to 5.0%, aluminum (Al): 5.0% or less, phosphorus (P): 0.15% or less, sulfur (S): 0.03% or less, nitrogen (N): 0.03% or less, and a balance of iron (Fe) and inevitable impurities; anda microstructure comprises, by volume %, 30-75% of tempered martensite, 10 to 50% of bainite, 10 to 40% of retained austenite, 5% or less of ferrite, and an inevitable structure, and satisfying the following Relational Expression 1,

0.55≤[Si+Al]γ/[Si+Al] av≤ 0.85,  [Relational Expression 1]

where [Si+Al]γ is a content (weight %) of Si and Al contained in the retained austenite, and [Si+Al]av is a content (weight %) of Si and Al contained in the high-strength steel sheet,

wherein R/t is 0.5 to 3.0 where R is a minimum bending radius (mm) at which cracking does not occur after a 900 bending test and t is a thickness (mm) of the steel sheet.

2. The high-strength steel sheet of claim 1 , further comprising at least one of (1) to (9):

(1) at least one of titanium (Ti): 0 to 0.5%, niobium (Nb): 0 to 0.5%, and vanadium (V): 0 to 0.5%;

(2) at least one of chromium (Cr): 0 to 3.0% and molybdenum (Mo): 0 to 3.0%;

(3) at least one of copper (Cu): 0 to 4.5% and nickel (Ni): 0 to 4.5%;

(4) boron (B): 0 to 0.005%;

(5) at least one of calcium (Ca): 0 to 0.05%, a rare earth element (REM) except yttrium (Y): 0 to 0.05%, and magnesium (Mg): 0 to 0.05%;

(6) at least one of tungsten (W): 0 to 0.5% and zirconium (Zr): 0 to 0.5%;

(7) at least one of antimony (Sb): 0 to 0.5% and tin (Sn): 0 to 0.5%;

(8) at least one of yttrium (Y): 0 to 0.2% and hafnium (Hf): 0 to 0.2%; and

(9) cobalt (Co): 0 to 1.5%.

3. The high-strength steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein a sum of silicon and aluminum (Si+Al) is 1.0 to 6.0%.

4. The steel sheet of claim 1 , wherein a product of tensile strength and elongation (TS×El) is 22,000 MPa % or more.

5. A method of manufacturing the steel sheet of claim 1 , the method comprising: heating a steel slab and hot rolling the heated steel slab to obtain a hot-rolled steel sheet, the steel slab comprising, by weight %, carbon (C): more than 0.25% to 0.75%, silicon (Si): 4.0% or less, manganese (Mn): 0.9 to 5.0%, aluminum (Al): 5.0% or less, phosphorus (P): 0.15% or less, sulfur (S): 0.03% or less, nitrogen (N): 0.03% or less, and a balance of iron (Fe) and inevitable impurities; coiling the hot-rolled steel sheet; performing a hot-rolling annealing heat treatment on the coiled steel sheet in a temperature range of 650 to 850° C. for 600 to 1700 seconds; cold rolling the coiled steel sheet subjected to the hot-rolling annealing heat treatment; heating the cold-rolled steel sheet to Ac3 or higher (first heating) and holding the first-heated steel sheet for 50 seconds or more (first holding); cooling the first-heated steel sheet to a temperature range of 100 to 300° C. at an average cooling rate of 1° C./sec (first cooling); heating the first-cooled steel sheet to a temperature range of 300 to 500° C. (second heating) and holding the second-heated steel sheet in the temperature range of 300 to 500° C. for 50 seconds or more (second holding); and cooling the second-heated steel sheet to room temperature; thereby producing the steel sheet of claim 1 .

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the cold-rolled steel sheet further comprises at least one of (1) to (9):

(1) at least one of titanium (Ti): 0 to 0.5%, niobium (Nb): 0 to 0.5%, and vanadium (V): 0 to 0.5%;

(2) at least one of chromium (Cr): 0 to 3.0% and molybdenum (Mo): 0 to 3.0%;

(3) at least one of copper (Cu): 0 to 4.5% and nickel (Ni): 0 to 4.5%;

(4) boron (B): 0 to 0.005%;

(5) at least one of calcium (Ca): 0 to 0.05%, a rare earth element (REM) except yttrium (Y): 0 to 0.05%, and magnesium (Mg): 0 to 0.05%;

(6) at least one of tungsten (W): 0 to 0.5% and zirconium (Zr): 0 to 0.5%;

(7) at least one of antimony (Sb): 0 to 0.5% and tin (Sn): 0 to 0.5%;

(8) at least one of yttrium (Y): 0 to 0.2% and hafnium (Hf): 0 to 0.2%;

(9) cobalt (Co): 0 to 1.5%.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the steel slab is heated to a temperature in a range of 1000 to 1350° C., and hot rolling comprises performing finish hot rolling in a temperature range of 800 to 1000° C.

8. The method of claim 5 , wherein the coiling is performed in a temperature range of 300 to 600° C.

9. The method of claim 5 , wherein the cold rolling is performed at a reduction ratio of 30 to 90%.

10. The method of claim 5 , wherein a rate of the second heating is 5° C./sec or more.

11. The method of claim 5 , wherein a rate of the second cooling is 1° C./sec or more.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2022
From: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.
To: POSCO CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 061773/0658 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 19, 2022
From: POSCO
To: POSCO HOLDINGS INC.
Reel/Frame 061476/0736 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 27, 2021
From: LEE, JAE-HOON; HAN, SANG-HO
To: POSCO
Reel/Frame 056409/0086 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0163899 · Dec 18, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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