THICK HIGH-TENSILE-STRENGTH HOT-ROLLED STEEL SHEET HAVING EXCELLENT LOW-TEMPERATURE TOUGHNESS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110284137A1
• Filed: 01/29/2010
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation (JFE Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation (JFE Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kami, Chikara, Nakata, Hiroshi, Nakagawa, Kinya
• Granted Patent: US 8,784,577 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 148/504
• CPC Class Codes: B21B 3/00 Rolling materials of special alloys so far as the composition of the alloy requires or permits special rolling methods or sequences ; Rolling of aluminium, copper, zinc or other non-ferrous metalsaltering special metallurgical properties of alloys, other than structure consolidation or mechanical properties resulting therefrom C21D, C22F
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 2211/005 Ferrite
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 2211/008 Martensite
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 8/0205 of ferrous alloys
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 8/0263 following hot rolling
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 8/105 of ferrous alloys
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 9/46 for sheet metals
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/001 containing N
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/002 containing In, Mg, or other elements not provided for in one single group C22C38/001 - C22C38/60
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/02 containing silicon
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/04 containing manganese
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/06 containing aluminium
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/08 containing nickel C22C38/105 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/12 containing tungsten, tantalum, molybdenum, vanadium, or niobium
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/14 containing titanium or zirconium
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/16 containing copper
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/26 with niobium or tantalum
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/28 with titanium or zirconium
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/38 with more than 1.5% by weight of manganese
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/42 with copper
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/44 : with molybdenum or tungsten
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/46 : with vanadium
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/48 : with niobium or tantalum
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/50 : with titanium or zirconium
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 38/58 : with more than 1.5% by weight of manganese

Abstract

A high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet is provided having a composition which contains 0.02 to 0.08% C, 0.01 to 0.10% Nb, 0.001 to 0.05% Ti and Fe and unavoidable impurities as a balance, wherein the steel sheet contains C, Ti and Nb in such a manner that (Ti+(Nb/2))/C<4 is satisfied, and the steel sheet has a structure where a primary phase of the structure at a position 1 mm away from a surface in a sheet thickness direction is one selected from a group consisting of a ferrite phase, tempered martensite and a mixture structure of a ferrite phase and tempered martensite, a primary phase of the structure at a sheet thickness center position is formed of a ferrite phase, and a difference ΔV between a structural fraction (volume %) of a secondary phase at the position 1 mm away from the surface in the sheet thickness direction and a structural fraction (volume %) of a secondary phase at the sheet thickness center position is 2% or less.

Claims

1. A high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet having a composition which contains by mass % 0.02 to 0.08% C, 0.01 to 0.50% Si, 0.5 to 1.8% Mn, 0.025% or less P, 0.005% or less S, 0.005 to 0.10% Al, 0.01 to 0.10% Nb, 0.001 to 0.05% Ti, and Fe and unavoidable impurities as a balance, wherein the steel sheet contains C, Ti and Nb in such a manner that a following formula (1) is satisfied, and the steel sheet has a structure where a primary phase of the structure at a position 1 mm away from a surface of the steel sheet in a sheet thickness direction is one selected from a group consisting of a ferrite phase, tempered martensite and a mixture structure of a ferrite phase and tempered martensite, a primary phase of the structure at a sheet thickness center position is formed of a ferrite phase, and a difference Δ

V between a structural fraction (volume %) of a secondary phase at the position 1 mm away from the surface of the steel sheet in the sheet thickness direction and a structural fraction (volume %) of a secondary phase at the sheet thickness center position is 2% or less;

wherein

(Ti+(Nb/2))/C<

4; and

Ti, Nb, C;

contents of respective elements (mass %).

2. The high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 1, wherein the structure at the position 1 mm away from the surface in the sheet thickness direction is a structure where the primary phase is formed of the ferrite phase, and a difference Δ

D between an average grain size of the ferrite phase at the position 1 mm away from the surface in the sheet thickness direction and an average grain size of the ferrite phase at the sheet thickness center position is 2 μ

m or less.

3. The high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 2, wherein the average grain size of the ferrite phase at the sheet thickness center position is 5 μ

m or less, the structural fraction (volume %) of the secondary phase is 2% or less, and a sheet thickness is more than 22 mm.

4. The high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 1, wherein the primary phase of the structure at the position 1 mm away from the surface in the sheet thickness direction is formed of either the tempered martensite structure or the mixture structure of bainite and tempered martensite, the structure at the sheet thickness center position includes the primary phase formed of bainite and/or bainitic ferrite and the secondary phase which is 2% or less by volume %, and a difference Δ

HV between Vickers hardness HV1mm at the position 1 mm away from the surface in the sheet thickness direction and Vickers hardness HV1/2t at the sheet thickness center position is 50 points or less.

5. The high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 1, wherein the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet has the composition which further contains by mass % one or two kinds or more selected from 0.01 to 0.10% V, 0.01 to 0.50% Mo, 0.01 to 1.0% Cr, 0.01 to 0.50% Cu, and 0.01 to 0.50% Ni in addition to the above-mentioned composition.

6. The high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 1, wherein the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet has the composition which further contains by mass % 0.0005 to 0.005% Ca in addition to the above-mentioned composition.

7. A method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 2, wherein in manufacturing the hot-rolled steel sheet by heating a steel material having the composition according to claim 1 and by applying hot rolling constituted of rough rolling and finish rolling to the steel material, the accelerated cooling is constituted of primary accelerated cooling and secondary accelerated cooling, wherein the primary accelerated cooling is performed in such a manner that cooling in which an average cooling rate at the sheet thickness center position is 10°

C./s or more and a cooling rate difference between an average cooling rate at a sheet thickness center position and an average cooling rate at a position 1 mm away from a surface in a sheet thickness direction is less than 80°

C./s is performed until a primary cooling stop temperature by which a temperature at a position 1 mm away from the surface in the sheet thickness direction becomes a temperature in a temperature range of 650°

C. or below and 500°

C. or above is obtained, and the secondary accelerated cooling is performed in such a manner that cooling in which the average cooling rate at the sheet thickness center position is 10°

C./s or more, and the cooling rate difference between the average cooling rate at the sheet thickness center position and the average cooling rate at the position 1 mm away from the surface in the sheet thickness direction is 80°

C./s or more is performed until the temperature at the sheet thickness center position becomes a secondary cooling stop temperature of BFS which is defined by a following formula (2) or below, and a hot-rolled steel sheet is coiled at a coiling temperature of BFS0 which is defined by a following formula (3) or below as the temperature at the sheet thickness center position after the secondary accelerated cooling, wherein

BFS(°

C.)=770−

300C−

70Mn−

70Cr−

170Mo−

40Cu−

40Ni−

1.5CR,

BFS0(°

C.)=770−

300C−

70Mn−

70Cr−

170Mo−

40Cu−

40Ni,

C, Mn, Cr, Mo, Cu, Ni;

contents of respective elements (mass %), and

CR;

cooling rate (°

C./s).

8. The method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 7, wherein air cooling is performed for 10 s or less between the primary accelerated cooling and the secondary accelerated cooling.

9. The method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 7, wherein the accelerated cooling is performed at the average cooling rate of 10°

C./s or more in the temperature range of 750 to 650°

C. at the sheet thickness center position.

10. The method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 7, wherein the difference between the cooling stop temperature at the position 1 mm away from the surface in the sheet thickness direction and the coiling temperature in the second accelerated cooling falls within 300°

C.

11. The method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 7, wherein the hot-rolled steel sheet has the composition which further contains by mass % one or two kinds or more selected from 0.01 to 0.10% V, 0.01 to 0.50% Mo, 0.01 to 1.0% Cr, 0.01 to 0.50% Cu, and 0.01 to 0.50% Ni in addition to the composition.

12. The method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 7, wherein the hot-rolled steel sheet has the composition which further contains by mass % 0.0005 to 0.005% Ca in addition to the composition.

13. A method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet having a sheet thickness exceeding 22 mm according to claim 3 and, wherein a hot-rolled steel sheet is manufactured by heating a steel material having the composition according to claim 1 and by applying hot rolling constituted of rough rolling and finish rolling to the steel material and, subsequently, accelerated cooling is applied to the hot-rolled steel sheet after completing the finish rolling at 10°

C./s or more in terms of an average cooling rate at a sheet thickness center position until a cooling stop temperature of BFS defined by the following formula (2) or below is obtained, and in coiling the hot-rolled steel sheet at a coiling temperature of BFS0 defined by a following formula (3) or below, a temperature of the hot-rolled steel sheet at the sheet thickness center position is adjusted in such a manner that a holding time through which a temperature of the hot-rolled steel sheet at the sheet thickness center position reaches a temperature (T−

20°

C.) from a temperature T(°

C.) which is a temperature at the time of starting the accelerated cooling is set to 20 s or less, and a cooling time from the temperature T to the temperature of BFS at the sheet thickness center position is set to 30 s or less, wherein

BFS(°

C.)=770−

300C−

70Mn−

70Cr−

170Mo−

40Cu−

40Ni−

1.5CR,

BFS0(°

C.)=770−

300C−

70Mn−

70Cr−

170Mo−

40Cu−

40Ni,

C, Mn, Cr, Mo, Cu, Ni;

contents of respective elements (mass %), and

CR;

cooling rate (°

C./s).

14. The method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 13, wherein the hot-rolled steel sheet has the composition which further contains by mass % one or two or more kinds selected from 0.01 to 0.10% V, 0.01 to 0.50% Mo, 0.01 to 1.0% Cr, 0.01 to 0.50% Cu, and 0.01 to 0.50% Ni in addition to the above-mentioned composition.

15. The method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 13, wherein the hot-rolled steel sheet has the composition which further contains by mass % 0.0005 to 0.005% Ca in addition to the composition.

16. A method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet possessing excellent low-temperature toughness according to claim 4, wherein in manufacturing a hot-rolled steel sheet by heating a steel material having the composition according to claim 1 and by applying hot rolling constituted of rough rolling and finish rolling to the steel material, a cooling step which is constituted of first-stage cooling in which the hot-rolled steel sheet is cooled to a cooling stop temperature in a temperature range of an Ms point or below in terms of a temperature at a position 1 mm away from a surface of the hot-rolled steel sheet in the sheet thickness direction at a cooling rate exceeding 80°

C./s in terms of an average cooling rate at the position 1 mm away from the surface of the hot-rolled steel sheet in a sheet thickness direction and second-stage cooling in which air cooling is performed for 30 s or less is performed at least twice after completing the hot rolling and, thereafter, third-stage cooling in which the hot-rolled steel sheet is cooled to a cooling stop temperature of BFS defined by the following formula (2) or below in terms of a temperature at a sheet thickness center position at a cooling rate exceeding 80°

C./s in terms of an average cooling rate at the position 1 mm away from the surface of the hot-rolled steel sheet in the sheet thickness direction is performed sequentially, and the hot-rolled steel sheet is coiled at a coiling temperature of BFS0 defined by the following formula (3) or below in terms of a temperature at the sheet thickness center position, wherein

BFS(°

C.)=770−

300C−

70Mn−

70Cr−

170Mo−

40Cu−

40Ni−

1.5CR,

BFS0(°

C.)=770−

300C−

70Mn−

70Cr−

170Mo−

40Cu−

40Ni,

C, Mn, Cr, Mo, Cu, Ni;

contents of respective elements (mass %), and

CR;

cooling rate (°

C./s).

17. The method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 16, wherein the hot-rolled steel sheet has the composition which further contains by mass % one or two or more kinds or more selected from 0.01 to 0.10% V, 0.01 to 0.50% Mo, 0.01 to 1.0% Cr, 0.01 to 0.50% Cu, and 0.01 to 0.50% Ni in addition to the above-mentioned composition.

18. The method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 16, wherein the hot-rolled steel sheet has the composition which further contains by mass % 0.0005 to 0.005% Ca in addition to the composition.

19. The method of manufacturing the high-tensile-strength hot-rolled steel sheet according to claim 16, wherein after the hot-rolled steel sheet is coiled at the coiling temperature, the hot-rolled steel sheet is held in a temperature range from (coiling temperature) to (coiling temperature−

50°

C.) for 30 min or more.