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US 12,077,831 B2Granted
Steel sheet, member, and methods for producing them
AssigneeJfe Steel Corporation
InventorsShimpei Yoshioka, Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Abstract
A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a tensile strength of 1,320 MPa or more, and methods for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a specified microstructure including martensite and bainite, the total area fraction of the martensite and the bainite being 95% or more and 100% or less, the balance being one or more selected from ferrite and retained austenite. The forumulae [% Ti]+[% Nb]>0.007 and [% Ti]×[% Nb]2≤7.5×10−6 are satisfied in the chemical composition.
Claims16
A steel sheet having a chemical composition comprising, by mass %:
- C:
- 0.13% or more and 0.40% or less;
- Si:
- 1.5% or less;
- Mn:
- 1.7% or less;
- P:
- 0.010% or less;
- S:
- 0.0020% or less;
- sol. Al:
- 0.20% or less;
- N:
- less than 0.0055%,%;
- O:
- 0.0025% or less;
- Nb:
- 0.002% or more and 0.035% or less;
- Ti:
- 0.002% or more and 0.10% or less;
- B:
- 0.0002% or more and 0.0035% or less;
- and
- the balance being Fe and incidental impurities,
- wherein the steel sheet has a microstructure including martensite and bainite, a total area fraction of the martensite and the bainite being in a range of 95% or more and 100% or less, the balance being one or more selected from ferrite and retained austenite, and
- a total of (i) a density of inclusion particles having a long-axis length in a range of 20 μm or more and 80 μm or less and a minimum interparticle distance of more than 10 μm and (ii) a density of inclusion particle clusters each having a long-axis cluster length in a range of 20 μm or more and 80 μm or less and each including two or more inclusion particles having a long-axis length of 0.3 μm or more and a minimum interparticle distance of 10 μm or less is 5 pieces/mm2 or less,
- a local P concentration in a region extending from a position 1/4 of a thickness of the steel sheet in a thickness direction from a surface of the steel sheet to a position 3/4 of the thickness of the steel sheet in the thickness direction from the surface of the steel sheet is 0.060% or less by mass, and a degree of Mn segregation in the region is 1.50 or less,
- the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1,320 MPa or more, and
- formulae (1) and (2) are satisfied:
- [% Ti]+[% Nb]>0.007 (1)
- [% Ti]×[% Nb]2≤7.5×10−6 (2)
- where, in each of formulae (1) and (2), [% Nb] and [% Ti] are a Nb content (%) and a Ti content (%), respectively, of the steel sheet.
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