Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a galvanized steel sheet, includes: galvanizing a steel sheet; bringing the surface of the steel sheet into contact with an aqueous solution containing zinc ion in the range of 5 to 100 g/l as the zinc ion concentration, having a pH of 4 to 6, and having a liquid temperature of 20 to 70°C, holding the steel sheet for 1 to 60 seconds; and then washing and drying the steel sheet. The solution containing zinc is preferably one containing zinc sulfate, for example. According to the method described above, a galvanized steel sheet having an oxide layer having an average thickness of 10 nm or more and mainly containing zinc formed on the surface of the steel sheet and having excellent press formability can be stably manufactured in a short time.
Abstract:
A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having high chemical convertibility and a tensile strength of 590 MPa or more and a method for producing such a steel sheet are provided. The steel sheet contains, in terms of percent by mass, C: 0.05 to 0.3%, Si: 0.6 to 3.0%, Mn: 1.0 to 3.0%, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.05% or less, Al: 0.01 to 1%, N: 0.01% or less, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The coverage ratio of reduced iron on a steel sheet surface is 40% or more. In order to produce such a steel sheet, an oxidation treatment is performed after cold rolling. In the oxidation treatment, first heating is conducted on a steel sheet in an atmosphere with an oxygen concentration of 1000 ppm or more until the steel sheet temperature reaches 630°C or higher and then second heating is conducted on the steel sheet in an atmosphere with an oxygen concentration of less than 1000 ppm until the steel sheet temperature reaches 700°C or higher. Subsequently, annealing is conducted in a furnace in a 1 to 10 vol% H 2 + balance N 2 gas atmosphere with a dew point of -25°C or less.
Abstract:
Provided are a high-strength galvanized steel sheet including a high-strength galvannealed steel sheet having a tensile strength (TS) of 1180 MPa or more and excellent spot weldability, anti-crash property, and bending formability which can preferably be used as a material for automobile parts and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a C content of 0.15% or less, in which an area ratio of ferrite is 10% or less, an area ratio of bainitic ferrite is 2% or more and 30% or less, an area ratio of martensite is 60% or more and 98% or less, an area ratio of retained austenite is less than 2%, an average grain diameter of martensite adjacent to bainite is 15 µm or less, a proportion of massive martensite adjacent only to bainite to the whole metallographic structure is 10% or less, and a value (”Hv) calculated by subtracting the Vickers hardness at a position located at 20 µm from the surface of the steel sheet from the Vickers hardness at a position located at 100 µm from the surface of the steel sheet is 30 or more.
Abstract:
Provided are a high-strength steel sheet having a yield strength (YS) of 780 MPa or more, a tensile strength (TS) of 1180 MPa or more, excellent spot weldability, excellent ductility, and excellent bending workability, which is suitable as a material of automotive parts, and a method for producing the high-strength steel sheet. In the high-strength steel sheet, the C content is 0.15% or less, the area ratio of ferrite is 8% to 45%, the area ratio of martensite is 55% to 85%, the proportion of martensite grains adjacent to only ferrite grains in the entire microstructure is 15% or less, the average crystal grain sizes of ferrite and martensite are each 10 µm or less, and the area ratio of ferrite grains having a size of 10 µm or more to all the ferrite grains included in a portion of the steel sheet which extends from 20 to 100 µm below the surface thereof is less than 5%.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a galvannealed steel sheet having excellent coating adhesion and sliding property in which a steel sheet is subjected to an oxidation treatment and reduction annealing, the method including performing the oxidation treatment under conditions such that the steel sheet is heated up to a temperature of 600°C or higher in an atmosphere which contains 1000 ppm or more of O 2 and the balance consisting of N 2 , CO, CO 2 , H 2 O and inevitable impurities and then heated up to a temperature of 700°C or higher in an atmosphere which contains less than 1000 ppm of O 2 and the balance consisting of N 2 , CO, CO 2 , H 2 O and inevitable impurities and performing the reduction annealing in an atmosphere whose dewpoint is 5°C or higher and which contains 1 vol.% or more and 15 vol.% or less of H 2 and the balance consisting of N 2 and inevitable impurities.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method for producing high-strength galvanized steel sheets having excellent coating adhesion, workability and appearance. The method for producing high-strength galvanized steel sheets includes a hot rolling step of hot rolling a slab including, in mass%, C: 0.05 to 0.30%, Si: 0.1 to 2.0% and Mn: 1.0 to 4.0%, thereafter coiling the steel sheet into a coil at a specific temperature T C , and pickling the steel sheet, a cold rolling step of cold rolling the hot-rolled steel sheet resulting from the hot rolling step, an annealing step of annealing the cold-rolled steel sheet resulting from the cold rolling step under specific conditions, and a galvanizing step of galvanizing the annealed sheet resulting from the annealing step in a galvanizing bath containing 0.12 to 0.22 mass% Al.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of producing a galvannealed steel sheet, the production method being capable of achieving a favorable plated appearance and of suppressing reductions in tensile strength. This method of producing a galvannealed steel sheet has: a step wherein a steel strip is transported through the inside of an annealing furnace, in order through a heating zone that includes a direct-firing-type furnace, a soaking zone, and a cooling zone, and the steel strip is annealed; a step wherein, after being discharged from the cooling zone, the steel strip is hot-dip galvanized; and a step wherein the zinc-plating applied to the steel strip is heated and alloyed. The production method is characterized in that a mixed gas that includes a humidified gas and a dry gas is supplied to the inside of the soaking zone from at least one gas supply port that is provided to the height-direction lower half of the soaking zone, and in that the dew point measured in the height-direction upper fifth of the soaking zone and the dew point measured in the height-direction lower fifth are both -20-0 °C.
Abstract:
Provided is a galvannealed steel sheet with excellent anti-powdering property when press forming is performed, without controlling the contents of chemical elements in steel which are effective for strengthening a steel sheet, such as Si and P, to be low in order to achieve required material properties and without increasing cost due to, for example, processes being complicated. A galvannealed steel sheet with excellent anti-powdering property has a coated layer taking in grains of a base steel sheet such that the grains constitute 2.0% or more and 15.0% or less of the coated layer in terms of cross section area ratio.
Abstract:
A method for producing a galvanized steel sheet includes contacting a steel sheet with a zinc-containing aqueous solution having a zinc ion concentration of 1 to 100 g/l, contacting the steel sheet with an aqueous solution with a pH of 6 to 14, washing the steel sheet with water, and then drying the steel sheet. An example of the zinc-containing aqueous solution is a solution containing zinc sulfate. According to the method, an oxide layer which has an average thickness of 10 nm or more and which principally contains zinc is formed on the steel sheet and the galvanized steel sheet can be stably produced at high speed in a reduced space so as to have excellent press formability.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a high-strength galvanized steel sheet and a method for producing the same, the high-strength galvanized steel sheet including a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.15% or more and 0.25% or less, Si: 0.50% or more and 2.5% or less, Mn: 2.3% or more and 4.0% or less, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 2.5% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; and a steel-sheet microstructure containing, by an area percentage basis, a tempered martensite phase: 30% or more and 73% or less, a ferrite phase: 25% or more and 68% or less, a retained austenite phase: 2% or more and 20% or less, and other phases: 10% or less (including 0%), the other phases containing a martensite phase: 3% or less (including 0%) and a bainitic ferrite phase: less than 5% (including 0%), the tempered martensite phase having an average grain size of 8 µm or less, and the retained austenite phase having a C content less than 0.7% by mass.