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US 12,630,912 B2Granted
High strength zinc-plated steel sheet having excellent uniform spot weldability along width direction and manufacturing method thereof
AssigneePosco
InventorsKi-Cheol Kang, Dae-Young Kang, Tae-Chul Kim, Seul-Gi So, Myung-Soo Kim, Jong-Sang Kim
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Abstract
According to an aspect of the present invention, provided are a high strength zinc-plated steel sheet having excellent uniform spot weldability along the width direction, and a manufacturing method thereof.
Claims10
A zinc-plated steel sheet including a base steel sheet and a zinc-based plated layer provided on a surface of the base steel sheet,
- wherein an average depth (a) of an internal oxide layer formed in the base steel sheet is 2 μm or more, and a difference (b−c) between an average internal oxide layer depth (b) at an edge portion side of the plated steel sheet in the width direction and an average internal oxide layer depth (c) at a center portion of the plated steel sheet in the width direction exceeds 0,
- wherein the average internal oxide layer depth (b) at the edge portion side is an average value of internal oxide layer depths measured at a point spaced apart, by 0.5 cm, from the edge of the plated steel sheet in the width direction to the center portion side of the plated steel sheet in the width direction of the plated steel sheet and at a point spaced apart by 1.0 cm from the edge of the plated steel sheet in the width direction to the center portion side of the plated steel sheet in the width direction of the plated steel sheet,
- wherein the average internal oxide layer depth (c) at the center portion is an average value of internal oxide layer depths measured at a point spaced apart by 15 cm from the edge of the plated steel sheet in the width direction to the center portion side of the plated steel sheet in the width direction of the plated steel sheet, at a point spaced apart by 30 cm from the edge of the plated steel sheet in the width direction to the center portion side of the plated steel sheet in the width direction of the plated steel sheet, and at the center of the plated steel sheet in the width direction, and
- wherein the average depth (a) of the internal oxide layer formed in the base steel sheet is an average value of the average internal oxide layer depth (b) at the edge portion side and the average internal oxide layer depth (c) at the center portion.
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A method of manufacturing a zinc-plated steel sheet, the method comprising:
- reheating a steel slab to a temperature range of 950 to 1300° C.;
- hot rolling the reheated slab at a finishing rolling start temperature of 900 to 1150° C. and a finishing rolling end temperature of 850 to 1050° C. to provide a hot-rolled steel sheet;
- coiling the hot-rolled steel sheet in a temperature range of 590 to 750° C.;
- heating both edges of the coiled hot-rolled coil to a temperature range of 600 to 800° C. at a heating rate of 10° C./s or more for 5 to 24 hours;
- annealing the hot-rolled steel sheet at a dew point temperature of −10 to +30° C., an atmospheric gas of N2-5 to 10% H2, and a soaking zone in a temperature range of 650 to 900° C.;
- slowly cooling the annealed hot-rolled steel sheet in a slow cooling zone in a temperature range of 550 to 700° C.;
- quenching the slowly cooled hot-rolled steel sheet in a rapid cooling zone in a temperature range of 270 to 550° C.;
- reheating the quenched hot-rolled steel sheet and then dipping the reheated steel sheet in a zinc-based plating bath at an inlet temperature of 420 to 550° C. to form a zinc-based plated layer;
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- selectively alloying the steel sheet on which the zinc-based plated layer is formed by heating in a temperature range of 480 to 560° C.
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