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US 12,716,110 B2Granted
High strength steel sheet having excellent workability and method for manufacturing same
AssigneePosco
InventorsJae-Hoon Lee, Young-Roc Im, Eul-Yong Choi
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Abstract
Provided is a steel sheet which can be used for automobile parts and the like, and relates to a steel sheet having an excellent balance of strength and ductility, an excellent balance of strength and hole expansibility and excellent bending workability, and a method for manufacturing same.
Claims4
A high strength steel sheet having excellent workability, comprising:
- by wt %, C:
- 0.36 to 0.75%, Si:
- 4.0% or less, Mn:
- 0.9 to 5.0%, Al:
- 5.0% or less, P:
- 0.15% or less, S:
- 0.03% or less, N:
- 0.03% or less, and the balance Fe and unavoidable impurities;
- and
- as microstructures, by volume fraction, 3 to 20% of ferrite which is a soft structure, and 30 to 70% of tempered martensite, 10 to 45% of bainite, and 10 to 40% of retained austenite which are hard structures,
- wherein the high strength steel sheet satisfies the following [Relational Expression 1] and [Relational Expression 2],
- 0.4≤[H]F/[H]TM+B+γ≤0.9 [Relational Expression 1]
- where [H]F and [H]TM+B+γ are nanohardness values measured using a nanoindenter, [H]F is an average nanohardness value Hv of the ferrite which is the soft structure, [H]TM+B+γ is the average nanohardness value Hv of the tempered martensite, the bainite, and the residual austenite which are the hard structures,
- V(1.2 μm,γ)/V(γ)≥0.1 [Relational Expression 2]
- where V(1.2 μm, γ) is a fraction (vol %) of the retained austenite having an average grain size of 1.2 μm or more, and V(γ) is the fraction (vol %) of the retained austenite of the steel sheet.
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