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US20180044759A1 - High-strength air-hardening multi-phase steel comprising outstanding processing properties and method for the production of a steel strip from said steel - Google Patents

High-strength air-hardening multi-phase steel comprising outstanding processing properties and method for the production of a steel strip from said steel Download PDF

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US20180044759A1 US15/528,003 US201515528003A US2018044759A1 US 20180044759 A1 US20180044759 A1 US 20180044759A1 US 201515528003 A US201515528003 A US 201515528003A US 2018044759 A1 US2018044759 A1 US 2018044759A1
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  • the invention relates to a high-strength, air-hardenable, multi-phase steel with excellent processing properties according to claim 1 .
  • Advantageous refinements are the subject of dependent claims 2 to 26 .
  • the invention also relates to a method for producing a hot-rolled and/or cold-rolled strip from such a steel and its heat treatment by means of air-hardening and, optionally, subsequent tempering, according to patent claims 27 to 34 , and a steel strip produced by this method according to the claims 35 to 41 .
  • the invention relates in particular to steels having a tensile strength in the range of at least 750 MPa in the non-annealed state for the production of components which have improved deformability (such as Increased hole expansion and increased bending angles) and improved weld properties.
  • the yield strength and tensile strength can be increased, for example, by air-hardening with optional subsequent tempering.
  • the weight of the vehicles can be reduced while simultaneously improving the forming characteristics and component properties during manufacture and operation.
  • high-strength to ultra-high-strength steels must meet comparatively high requirements with respect to their strength and ductility, energy absorption and processing, such as, for example, during punching, hot and cold forming, hot tempering (e.g. air-hardening, press-hardening), welding and/or surface treatment, e.g. a metallic refinement, organic coating or varnishing.
  • hot tempering e.g. air-hardening, press-hardening
  • welding and/or surface treatment e.g. a metallic refinement, organic coating or varnishing.
  • a high-strength to ultra-high-strength steel with a single-phase or multi-phase microstructure has to be used to ensure sufficient strength of the motor vehicle components and to meet the high requirements placed on component in terms of tenacity, edge crack resistance, improved bending angle and bending radius, energy absorption and hardening capacity, and Bake Hardening Effect.
  • the hole expansion capacity is a material property which describes the resistance of the material against the risk of fracture and crack propagation during forming operations in areas close to the edge, such as for example, during collar forming.
  • the hole expansion test is, for example, governed by the normative standard ISO 16630. Prefabricated holes, for example, punched into a sheet, are then expanded by means of a mandrel. The measured value is the change in the hole diameter relative to the starting diameter, at which the first crack occurs through the sheet at the edge of the hole.
  • Improved edge crack resistance means increased deformability of the sheet edges and can be described by an increased hole expansion capacity. This is known under the synonyms “Low Edge Crack” (LEC) and “High Hole expansion” (HHE) as well as Xpand®.
  • LOC Low Edge Crack
  • HHE High Hole expansion
  • the bending angle describes a material property which allows drawing conclusions regarding the material behavior during forming operations with dominant bending processes (for example, during folding) or also when subjected to crash loads. Increased bending angles therefore increase the passenger compartment safety.
  • the determination of the bending angle ( ⁇ ) is governed by the plate bending test set forth in the normative standard VDA 238-100.
  • AHSS Advanced High Strength Steels
  • SEP1970 steels
  • dual-phase steels which consist of a ferritic basic microstructure into which a martensitic second phase is incorporated. It has been found that in the case of low-carbon, micro-alloyed steels, proportions of further phases such as bainite and residual austenite have an advantageous effect for example on the hole expansion behavior, the bending behavior and the hydrogen-induced brittle fracture behavior.
  • the bainite can hereby be present in various forms, e.g. upper and lower bainite.
  • the group of multi-phase steels is increasingly used.
  • the multi-phase steels include, for example, complex-phase steels, ferritic-bainitic steels, TRIP-steels, as well as the dual-phase steels described above, which are characterized by different microstructural compositions.
  • Complex phase steels are, according to EN 10346, steels which contain small proportions of martensite, residual austenite and/or perlite in a ferritic/bainitic basic microstructure, wherein a strong grain refinement is caused by a delayed recrystallization or precipitation of microalloying elements.
  • these complex phase steels have higher yield strengths, a higher yield ultimate ratio, a lower strain hardening and a higher hole expansion capacity.
  • Ferritic-bainitic steels are, according to EN 10346, steels containing bainite or work hardened bainite in a matrix of ferrite and/or work-hardened ferrite.
  • the strength of the matrix is caused by a high dislocation density, by grain refining and the precipitation of micro-alloying elements.
  • Dual-phase steels are, according to EN 10346, steels with a ferritic basic microstructure, in which a martensitic second phase is incorporated in the form of islands, in some cases also with portions of bainite as the second phase. Dual-phase steels have a high tensile strength, while also exhibiting a low yield ultimate ratio and strong strain hardening.
  • TRIP-steels are, according to EN 10346, steels with a predominantly ferritic basic microstructure in which bainite and residual austenite are incorporated, which can transform into martensite during deformation (TRIP effect). Because of its strong strain hardening, the steel achieves high values of uniform elongation and tensile strength. Combined with the bake hardening effect, high component strengths can be achieved. These steels are suitable for stretch forming as well as for deep drawing. However, higher sheet metal holding forces and pressing forces are required during forming of the material. Comparatively strong rebounding must be taken into account.
  • High-strength steels with single-phase microstructure include for example bainitic and martensitic steels.
  • Bainitic steels are, according to EN 10346, characterized by a very high yield strength and tensile strength with a sufficiently high elongation for cold forming processes. Their chemical composition results in good weldability.
  • the microstructure is typically composed of bainite. Small proportions of other phases, e.g. martensite and ferrite may be contained in the microstructure.
  • Martensitic steels are, according to EN 10346, steels which contain small proportions of ferrite and/or bainite in a basic microstructure of martensite as a result of thermo-mechanical rolling. This steel grade is characterized by a very high yield strength and tensile strength with a sufficiently high elongation for cold forming processes. Within the group of multi-phase steels, the martensitic steels have the highest tensile strength values. The suitability for deep drawing is limited. The martensitic steels are mainly suitable for bending forming processes, such as roll forming.
  • quench-hardening and tempering When the cooling during hardening at air results in bainite or martensite, the method is referred to as “air-hardening”. Via tempering after the hardening the strength/toughness ratio can be influenced in a targeted manner.
  • High-strength and ultra-high-strength multi-phase steels are used, inter alia, in structural, chassis and crash-relevant components, as sheet metal plates, tailored blanks as well as flexible cold rolled strips, so-called TRB®s or tailored strips.
  • the Tailor Rolled Blank lightweight technology (TRB®) enables a significant weight reduction by means of a load-adapted sheet thickness over the component length and/or steel grade.
  • a special heat treatment takes place for adjusting a defined microstructure, wherein for example comparatively soft constituents, such as ferrite or bainitic ferrite, result in a low yield strength of the steel, and hard constituents of the steel, such as martensite or carbon-rich bainite contribute to the strength of the steel.
  • cold-rolled high-strength to ultra-high-strength steel strips are usually annealed in the continuous annealing process to a readily formable metal sheet
  • the process parameters such as throughput speed, annealing temperatures and cooling rate (cooling gradients) are adjusted according to the required mechanical-technological properties with the microstructure required therefore.
  • the pickled hot strip in typical thicknesses between 1.50 to 4.00 mm, or cold strip, in typical thicknesses of 0.50 to 3.00 mm, is heated in the continuous annealing furnace to such a temperature that the required microstructure forms during recrystallization and cooling.
  • Widened process windows are necessary so that, given the same process parameters, the required strip properties can be achieved even in the case of larger cross-sections of the strips to be annealed.
  • a method for producing a steel strip of different thickness over the strip length is e.g. described in DE 100 37 867 A1.
  • the annealing is usually carried out in a continuous annealing furnace arranged upstream of the hot dip galvanizing bath.
  • the demanded microstructure is not established until annealing in the continuous furnace, in order to realize the demanded mechanical properties.
  • Deciding process parameters are thus the adjustment of the annealing temperatures and the speed, but also the cooling rate (cooling gradient) in the continuous annealing because the phase transformation is temperature and time dependent.
  • the cooling rate cooling gradient
  • the narrow process window makes it already difficult during the continuous annealing of strips with different thicknesses to establish uniform mechanical properties over the entire length and width of the strip.
  • the too narrow process window either causes the regions with lower sheet thickness to have excessive strengths resulting from excessive martensite proportions due to the transformation processes during cooling, or the regions with greater sheet thickness achieve insufficient strengths as a result of insufficient martensite proportions.
  • Homogenous mechanical-technological properties across the strip length or width can practically not be achieved with the known alloy concepts in the continuous annealing.
  • the goal to achieve the resulting mechanical-technological properties in a narrow region across the strip width and strip length through controlled adjustment of the volume proportions of the microstructure phases has highest priority and is therefore only possible through a widened process window.
  • the known alloy concepts for multiphase steels are characterized by a too narrow process window and are therefore not suited for solving the present problem, in particular in the case of flexibly rolled strips. With the alloy concepts known to date only steels of one strength class with defined cross sectional regions (sheet thickness and strip width) can be produced, hence requiring different alloy concepts for different strength classes or cross sectional ranges.
  • PCM C+(Mn+Cu+Cr)/20+Ni/60+Mo/15+V/10+5B
  • the characteristic standard elements such as carbon and manganese, as well as chromium or molybdenum and vanadium (contents in % by weight) are taken into account.
  • Silicon plays only a subordinate role in the calculation of the carbon equivalent. This is of crucial importance with respect to the invention.
  • the lowering of the carbon equivalent through lower contents of carbon as well as of manganese is to be compensated by increasing the silicon content.
  • the edge crack resistance and welding suitability are improved while maintaining same strengths.
  • a low yield ultimate ratio (Re/Rm) in a strength range above 750 MPa in the initial state is typical for a dual-phase steel and serves in particular the formability in drawing and deep drawing operations. This provides the constructor with information regarding the distance between ensuing plastic deformation and failing of the material at quasi-static load. Correspondingly lower yield strength ratios represent a greater safety margin for component failure.
  • a higher yield ultimate ratio (Re/Rm), as is typical for complex-phase steels, is also characterized by a high resistance against edge cracks. This can be attributed to the smaller differences in the strengths and hardnesses of the individual microstructural constituents and the finer microstructure, which has a favorable effect on a homogeneous deformation in the region of the cutting edge.
  • the analytical landscape for the achievement of multi-phase steels with minimum tensile strengths of 750 MPa is very diverse and shows very large alloying ranges for the strength-enhancing elements carbon, silicon, manganese, phosphorus, nitrogen, aluminum as well as chromium and/or molybdenum as well as the addition of microalloys such as titanium, niobium, vanadium and boron.
  • the dimensional spectrum in this strength range is wide and is in the thickness range of about 0.50 to about 4.00 mm for strips which are intended for continuous annealing.
  • the used starting material can be a hot-rolled strip, cold-rolled hot-rolled strip and cold strip. Mainly strips up to a width of about 1600 mm are used, but also slit strips dimensions which result form longitudinal division of the strips. Sheet metals or plates are produced by cutting the strips transversely.
  • the air-hardenable steel grades known, for example, from EP 1 807 544 B1, WO 2011/000351 and EP 2 227 574 81, with minimum tensile strengths of 800 (LH®800) and 900 MPa (LH®900), respectively, in a hot-rolled or cold-rolled version are characterized by their very good formability in the soft state (deep drawing properties) and by their high strength after heat treatment (tempering).
  • the microstructure of the steel is transformed into the austenitic range by heating, preferably to temperatures above 950° C. under a protective gas atmosphere. During the subsequent cooling at air or protective gas, a martensitic microstructure is formed for a high-strength component.
  • this object is achieved by a steel having the following chemical composition in % by weight:
  • the microstructure is composed of the main phases ferrite and martensite and the secondary phase bainite, which determines the improved mechanical properties of the steel.
  • the steel according to the invention is characterized by low carbon equivalents and, in the case of the carbon equivalent CEV (IIW), is limited to max. 0.66% in dependence on the sheet thickness, in order to achieve excellent weldability and the further specific properties described below.
  • CEV (IIW) value of max. 0.50% has proven advantageous, for sheet thicknesses of up to 2.00 mm a value of max. 0.55%, and above 2.00 mm a value of max. 0.60%.
  • the steel according to the invention can be produced within a broad range of hot rolling parameters, for example with coiling temperatures above the bainite starting temperature (variant A).
  • a microstructure can be adjusted which allows the steel according to the invention to be cold rolled without prior soft annealing, wherein degrees of cold rolling between 10 to 60% per cold rolling pass can be used.
  • the steel according to the invention is very suitable as a starting material for a hot dip refining and has a significantly widened process window as compared to the known steels, due to the aggregate amount of Mn, Si and Cr and Mo added according to the invention as a function of the strip thickness to be produced.
  • components which are load-optimized components can be produced from these hot or cold strips.
  • the steel strip according to the invention can be produced as a cold and hot strip as well as a cold re-rolled hot strip by means of a hot-galvanizing line or a pure continuous annealing line in the skin passed and non skin passed state, in the stretch-bent and non-stretch-bent state and also in the heat-treated (over-aged) state.
  • steel strips can be produced by intercritical annealing between A c1 and A c3 , or by austenitizing annealing over A c3 with final controlled cooling, which leads to a dual or multi-phase microstructure.
  • Annealing temperatures of about 700 to 950° C. have been found to be advantageous. Depending on the overall process (continuous annealing or additional hot dip finishing), there are different approaches for heat treatment.
  • the strip is cooled from the annealing temperature to an intermediate temperature of approximately 160 to 250° C. at a cooling rate of about 15 to 100° C./sec.
  • a cooling rate of about 15 to 100° C./sec it is possible to cool beforehand to a prior intermediate temperature of 300 to 500° C. with a cooling rate of about 15 to 100° C./sec.
  • the cooling to room temperature is finally performed at a cooling rate of about 2 to 30° C./sec (see method 1, FIG. 6 a ).
  • the second variant of the temperature profile during hot dip refining involves maintaining the temperature for about 1 to 20 s at the Intermediate temperature of about 200 to 350° C. and then reheating to the temperature of about 400 to 470° C. required for hot dip refining.
  • the strip is cooled again to about 200 to 250° C. after refining.
  • the cooling to room temperature is again performed at a cooling rate of about 2 to 30° C./sec (see method 3, FIG. 6 c ).
  • the ferritic region is shifted to longer time periods and lower temperatures during cooling.
  • the proportions of ferrite are thereby reduced to a greater or lesser extent by increased amounts of bainite depending on the process parameters.
  • the carbon equivalent can be reduced, thereby improving the weldability and avoiding excessive hardening during welding. In the case of resistance spot welding, the electrode life can also be significantly increased.
  • Hydrogen (H) is the only element that can diffuse through the iron lattice without generating lattice strains. As a result hydrogen is relatively mobile in the iron lattice and can be absorbed relatively easily during the processing of the steel. Hydrogen can only be absorbed into the iron lattice in atomic (ionic) form.
  • Hydrogen is highly embrittling and diffuses preferentially to energetically favorable sites (defects, grain boundaries, etc.), hereby defects function as hydrogen traps and can significantly increase the residence time of the hydrogen in the material.
  • a more uniform structure which in the steel according to the invention is achieved inter alia by its widened process window, also reduces the susceptibility to hydrogen embrittlement.
  • Oxygen (O) In the molten state, the steel has a relatively high absorption capacity for gases. At room temperature, however, oxygen is only soluble in very small amounts. Analogous to hydrogen, oxygen can diffuse into the material only in atomic form. Owing to the highly embrittling effect and the negative effects on aging resistance, attempts are made to reduce the oxygen content during production as far as possible.
  • the oxygen can be converted into more harmless states.
  • the oxygen is typically bound by manganese, silicon and/or aluminum in the course of a deoxidation of the steel.
  • the resulting oxides may cause negative properties as defects in the material.
  • Phosphorus (P) is a trace element from the iron ore and is dissolved in the iron lattice as a substitution atom. Phosphorus increases the hardness by solid-solution strengthening and improves the hardenability. However, it is usually sought to lower the phosphorous content as far as possible because inter alia due to its slow diffusion speed it has a strong tendency to segregation and strongly lowers tenacity. Deposition of phosphorus at the grain boundaries can lead to grain boundary cracks. In addition phosphorous increases the transition temperature from tenacious to brittle behavior by up to 300° C. During hot rolling, surface-proximate phosphorous oxides can lead to separation at the grain boundaries.
  • phosphorous is used in some steels in low amounts ( ⁇ 0.1%) as micro-alloying element for example in high strength IF-steels (Interstitial free), bake hardening steels or also in some alloying concepts for dual-phase steels.
  • the steel according to the invention differs from known analysis concepts which use phosphorus as a solid solution former, Inter alia because phosphorus is not added but is adjusted as low as possible.
  • the phosphorus content in the steel according to the invention is limited to quantities unavoidable in steel production.
  • S Sulfur
  • S Sulfur
  • MnS manganese sulfide
  • the sulfur content in the steel according to the invention is limited to ⁇ 0.0030% by weight, or optimally to ⁇ 0.0020% by weight, or to unavoidable quantities in steel production.
  • Alloying elements are generally added to the steel in order to influence specific properties in a targeted manner.
  • An alloying element can influence different properties in different steels. The effect is generally dependent on the amount and the state of solution in the material.
  • Carbon (C) is the most important alloying element in steel. Its targeted introduction of up to 2.06% by weight, is required to turn iron into the steel. Often the carbon content is drastically reduced during steel production. In the case of dual-phase steels for a continuous hot dip coating, its content is at most 0.180% by weight according to EN 10346 or VDA 239-100, a minimum value is not specified.
  • carbon Due to its relatively small atomic radius carbon is dissolved interstitially in the iron lattice.
  • the solubility in the ⁇ -iron is maximally 0.02% and in the ⁇ -iron maximally 2.06%.
  • carbon significantly increases the hardenability of steel and is thus indispensable for the formation of sufficient amounts of martensite.
  • Excessive carbon contents increase the hardness difference between ferrite and martensite and limit weldability.
  • the steel according to the invention contains less than 0.115% carbon by weight.
  • Carbon also forms carbides.
  • a cementite phase (Fe 3 C) occurs in almost every steel.
  • much harder special carbides can also form with other metals such as, for example, chromium, titanium, niobium, vanadium.
  • the minimum C-content is set to be 0.075% by weight and the maximal C-content to 0.115% by weight; advantageous are and contents that are adjusted depending on the cross-section, such as:
  • Material thickness less than 1.00 mm (C of ⁇ 0.100% by weight) Material thicknesses between 1.00 to 2.00 mm (C ⁇ 0.105 by weight) Material thicknesses above 2.00 mm (C ⁇ 0.115% by weight).
  • Silicone (Si) binds oxygen during casting and is thus used for deoxidizing the steel.
  • the segregation coefficient is significantly lower than that of for example manganese (0.16 compared to 0.87). Segregations generally lead to a banded arrangement of the microstructure components, which impair the forming properties, for example the hole expansion and the bending ability.
  • silicone results in strong solid solution hardening.
  • the addition of 0.1% silicone results in an approximate increase of the tensile strength by about 10 MPa, wherein up to 2.2% silicone impairs expansion only insignificantly.
  • the increase from 0.2% to 0.5% silicone resulted in a strength increase of about 10 MPa in yield strength and about 25 MPa in tensile strength.
  • the elongation at break hereby decreases by only about 1%.
  • the latter results inter alia from the fact that silicone lowers the solubility of carbon in ferrite, which causes the ferrite to be softer, which in turn improves formability.
  • silicone prevents the formation of carbides, which lower ductility as brittle phases.
  • the low strength increasing effect of silicone within the range of the steel according to the invention forms the basis of a wide process window.
  • silicon in the range according to the invention has led to further surprising effects described below.
  • the above-described retardation of carbide formation could e.g. also be caused by aluminum.
  • aluminum forms stable nitrides so that there is not enough nitrogen available for the formation of carbonitrides with micro-alloying elements. Due to the alloying with silicon, this problem does not exist, since silicon does not form carbides or nitrides.
  • silicon has an indirect positive effect on the formation precipitates by microalloys, which in turn has a positive effect on the strength of the material. Since the increase in the transformation temperatures by silicon tends to favor grain coarsening, a microalloying with niobium, titanium and boron is particularly suitable, as is the targeted adjustment of the nitrogen content in the steel according to the invention.
  • the atmospheric conditions in a continuous hot dip galvanizing facility during the annealing treatment cause a reduction of iron oxide, which may form on the surface for example during cold rolling or as a result of storage at room temperature.
  • oxygen-affine alloy components such as silicone, manganese, chromium, boron the overall atmosphere is oxidizing, which may result in segregation and selective oxidation of these elements.
  • the selective oxidation can occur externally, i.e., on the substrate surface as well as internally in the metallic matrix.
  • the strip surface first has to be freed of residual scale, rolling oil or other dirt particles by a chemical or thermal-hydro-mechanical pre-cleaning.
  • measures also have to be taken to promote the inner oxidation of the alloy elements below the surface of the material. Depending on the configuration of the facility, different measures are used for this purpose.
  • the inner oxidation of the alloy elements can be influenced in a targeted manner by adjusting the oxygen partial pressure of the furnace atmosphere (N 2 —H 2 protective gas atmosphere).
  • the adjusted oxygen partial pressure hereby has to satisfy the following equation, wherein the furnace temperature is between 700 and 950° C.
  • Si, Mn, Cr, B denote the corresponding alloying components in the steel in percent by weight and pO 2 the oxygen partial pressure in mbar.
  • the selective oxidation can also be influenced via the gas atmosphere of the furnace regions.
  • the oxygen partial pressure and with this the oxidation potential for iron and the alloy components can be adjusted.
  • the oxidation potential is to be adjusted so that the oxidation of the alloy elements occurs internally, below the steel surface and a thin iron oxide layer may form on the steel surface after passage through the NOF region. This is achieved for example via reducing the CO-value below 4%.
  • the iron oxide layer which may have formed and also the alloy elements are further reduced under a N 2 —H 2 protective gas atmosphere.
  • the adjusted oxygen partial pressure in this furnace region hereby has to satisfy the following equation, wherein the furnace temperature is between 700 and 950° C.
  • Si, Mn, Cr, B designate the corresponding alloy proportions in the steel in mass % and pO 2 the oxygen partial pressure in mbar.
  • the dew point of the gas atmosphere N 2 —H 2 protective gas atmosphere
  • the oxygen partial pressure is to be adjusted so that oxidation of the strip is avoided prior to immersion into the melt bath.
  • Dew points in the range of from ⁇ 30 to ⁇ 40° C. have proven advantageous.
  • the minimal SI-content is set to 0.600% and the maximal silicone content to 0.750%.
  • Manganese (Mn) is added to almost every steel for de-sulfurization in order to convert the deleterious sulfur into manganese sulfides.
  • manganese increases the strength of the ferrite and shifts the ⁇ -/ ⁇ -transformation toward lower temperatures.
  • a main reason for adding manganese in dual-phase steels is the significant improvement of the hardness penetration. Due to the diffusion impairment the perlite and bainite transformation is shifted toward longer times and the martensite start temperature is lowered.
  • manganese tends to form oxides on the steel surface during the annealing treatment.
  • manganese oxides for example MnO
  • Mn mixed oxides for example Mn 2 SiO 4
  • manganese is less critical at a low Si/Mn or Al/Mn ratio because globular oxides instead of oxide films form. Nevertheless high manganese contents may negatively influence the appearance of the zinc layer and the zinc adhesion.
  • the Manganese-content is set to 1.000 to 1.900% by weight.
  • the manganese content is preferably in a range between ⁇ 1.000 and ⁇ 1500% by weight, in the case of strip thicknesses of 1.00 to 2.00 mm, between ⁇ 1.300 and ⁇ 1.700% by weight, and in the case of band thicknesses above 2.00 mm between ⁇ 1.600% by weight and ⁇ 1.900% by weight.
  • a further special feature of the invention is that the variation of the manganese content can be compensated by a simultaneous change in the silicon content.
  • the strength increase here the yield strength, YS
  • YS yield strength
  • the coefficients of manganese and silicon are approximately equal for the yield strength as well as for the tensile strength, whereby the possibility of the substitution of manganese by silicon is given.
  • Chromium (Cr) in solubilized form can on one hand significantly increase the hardenability of steel already in small amounts.
  • chromium causes precipitation hardening at a corresponding temperature profile in the form of chromium carbides.
  • the increase of the number of germination sites at simultaneously lowered carbon content leads to a lowering of the hardenability.
  • chromium In dual-phase steels addition of chromium mainly improves the hardness penetration. In the solubilized state chromium shifts perlite and bainite transformation toward longer times and at the same time lowers the martensite start temperature.
  • Chromium is also a carbide former.
  • the austenitization temperature before hardening should be selected high enough to dissolve the chromium carbides. Otherwise the increased number of nuclei may impair the hardness penetration.
  • Chromium also tends to form oxides on the steel surface during the annealing treatment, which may degrade melt smelting quality.
  • the formation of Cr oxides or Cr mixed oxides on the steel surface after annealing is reduced.
  • the chromium content is therefore set to contents from 0.200 to 0.600% by weight.
  • the chromium content is preferably in a range between ⁇ 0.250 and ⁇ 0.350% by weight, at strip thicknesses of 1.00 mm to 2.00 mm between >0.350 and ⁇ 0.450% by weight, and at strip thicknesses of above 2.00 mm between >0.450% by weight and ⁇ 0.550% by weight.
  • the content of molybdenum is therefore adjusted to between ⁇ 0.200.
  • Advantageous are ranges between 0.050 and 0.100% by weight.
  • Cooper the addition of copper can increase tensile strength and hardness penetration.
  • copper can form a protective oxide layer on the surface, which significantly reduces the corrosion rate.
  • copper When combined with oxygen, copper can form harmful oxides at the grain boundaries, which can have a negative effect on hot forming processes.
  • the content of copper is therefore set to ⁇ 0.050% by weight and is thus limited to quantities unavoidable in steel production.
  • Vanadium (V) Since the addition of vanadium is not necessary in the present alloying concept, the content of vanadium is limited to unavoidable amounts of steel.
  • Aluminum (Al) is usually added to the steel to bind the dissolved oxygen and nitrogen in the iron. Oxygen and nitrogen are thus converted into aluminum oxides and aluminum nitrides. These precipitates can effect grain refinement by increasing the number of nucleation sites, thus increasing the toughness properties as well as strength values.
  • Titanium nitrides have less enthalpy of formation and are formed at higher temperatures.
  • the aluminum content is therefore limited to 0.010 to maximally 0.060% by weight or optimally to 0.050% by weight, and is added to deoxidize the steel.
  • Niobium has different effects in the steel. During hot rolling in the finishing train it delays recrystallization by forming ultra-finely distributed precipitates, which increases the density of germination sites and a finer grain is generated after transformation. Also the proportion of dissolved niobium inhibits recrystallization. In the final product the precipitates increase strength. These precipitates can be carbides or carbonitrides. Oftentimes these precipitates are mixed carbides, into which also titanium can be integrated. This effect starts manifesting itself at 0.0050% and is most pronounced above 0.010% to 0.050% by weight niobium. The precipitates also prevent grain growth during the (partial) austenitization in the hot dip galvanizing.
  • niobium no additional effect is expected. With regard to the effect to be achieved by niobium contents of 0.005% by weight to 0.040% by weight have proven advantageous. Optimal are contents of 0.015% by weight to 0.035% by weight.
  • Titanium (Ti) Due to its high affinity for nitrogen, titanium is predominantly precipitated as TIN during solidification. It also occurs together with niobium as mixed carbide. TiN is of great importance for the grain size stability in the kiln. The precipitates have a high temperature stability so that, unlike the mixed carbides, at 1200° C. they are largely present as particles which hinder grain growth. Titanium also has a retarding effect on recrystallization during hot rolling but is less effective than niobium. Titanium acts by precipitation hardening. The larger TiN particles are however less effective than the finer distributed mixed carbides. The best efficacy is achieved in the range of from 0.005 to 0.030% by weight of titanium, and advantageously in the range from 0.005 to 0.025% by weight titanium.
  • Boron is an extremely effective alloying agent for increasing the hardenability even in very small amounts (from 5 ppm).
  • the martensite start temperature remains unaffected.
  • boron must be in solid solution. Because of its high affinity to nitrogen, the nitrogen first has to be bound, preferably by the stoichiometrically required amount of titanium. Due to its low solubility in iron, the solubilized boron is preferentially present at the austenite grain boundaries. There it partially forms Fe—B carbides, which are coherent and lower the grain boundary energy. Both effects have a delay the ferrite and perlite formation and thus Increase the hardenability of the steel.
  • the boron content for the inventive alloy concept is set to values of 5 to 30 ppm, optimally 5 to 20 ppm.
  • Nitrogen (N) can be both an alloying element and an accompanying element from steel production. Excessively high nitrogen contents cause an increase in strength combined with a rapid loss of toughness as well as aging effects.
  • fine-grain hardening via titanium nitrides and niobium (carbo) nitrides can be achieved by a targeted addition of nitrogen in conjunction with the microalloying elements titanium and niobium. In addition, formation of coarse grains is suppressed during reheating prior to hot rolling.
  • the N-content is therefore set to values of ⁇ 0.0020 to ⁇ 0.0120% by weight.
  • the content of nitrogen should be kept at values of ⁇ 20 to ⁇ 90 ppm.
  • contents of nitrogen of ⁇ 40 to ⁇ 120 ppm have proven to be advantageous.
  • niobium and titanium contents of ⁇ 0.065% by weight have proven to be advantageous and, owing to the fact that niobium and titanium are exchangeable to a minimum niobium content of 10 ppm, and particularly advantageously of ⁇ 0.055% by weight for reasons of cost.
  • sum contents of ⁇ 0.070% by weight have proven to be advantageous and particularly advantageously of ⁇ 0.060% by weight. Higher contents do not have any further improving effect in the sense of the invention.
  • a Ca content of ⁇ 0.005 to ⁇ 0.0060% by weight and advantageously 0.0030% by weight is set.
  • the annealing temperatures for the dual-phase structure to be achieved are between about 700 and 950° C. for the steel according to the invention, so that a partial austenitic (two-phase region) or a fully austenitic structure (austenite region) is achieved, depending on the temperature range.
  • the continuously annealed and, as the case may be, hot dip refined material can be produced both as hot strip as well as cold re-rolled hot strip or cold strip in the skin-passed rolled (cold re-rolled) or non-skin-pass rolled state and/or in the stretch leveled or not stretch leveled state and also in the heat treated state (overageing).
  • this state is referred to as the initial state.
  • Steel strips in the present case as hot strips, cold re-rolled hot strip or cold strip, made from the alloy composition according to the invention, are in addition characterized by a high resistance against edge-proximate crack formation during further processing.
  • plates can be cut from a strip independent of the rolling direction (for example transversely, longitudinally and diagonally, or at an angle to the rolling direction) and the waste can be minimized.
  • the hot-rolled strip is produced according to the invention with final rolling temperatures in the austenitic region above A c3 and at coiling temperatures above the bainite starting temperature (variant A).
  • the hot-rolled strip is produced according to the invention at final rolling temperatures in the austenitic region above A c3 and coiling temperatures below the bainite starting temperature (variant B).
  • FIG. 1 Process chain (schematic) for the production of a strip from the steel according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 Time-temperature profile (schematic) of the process steps of hot-rolling and cold-rolling (optional) and continuous annealing, component manufacturing, heat treatment (air hardening) and tempering (optional) exemplary for the steel according to the invention
  • FIG. 3 Chemical composition of the investigated steels
  • FIG. 4 a Mechanical characteristic values (along the rolling direction) as target values, air-hardened and not tempered
  • FIG. 4 b Mechanical characteristic values (along the rolling direction) of the stepped steels in the initial state
  • FIG. 4 c Mechanical characteristic values (along the rolling direction) of the steered steels in the air-hardened, non-tempered state
  • FIG. 5 Results of the hole spreading tests according to ISO 16630 and the plate bending test according to VDA 238-100 on steels according to the invention
  • FIG. 6 a Method 1, temperature-time curves (annealing variants schematically)
  • FIG. 6 b Method 2, temperature-time curves (annealing variants schematically)
  • FIG. 6 c Method 3, temperature-time curves (annealing variants schematically)
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic illustration of the process chain for producing a strip from the steel according to the invention.
  • the various process routes pertaining to the invention are illustrated. Until the hot rolling (final rolling temperature), the process route is the same for all steels according to the invention, afterwards, depending on the desired results, different process routes take place.
  • the pickled hot strip can be galvanized or cold-rolled and galvanized with different degrees of rolling. It is also possible to cold-rolled and galvanized hot-annealed hot-rolled strip or soft-annealed cold strip.
  • thermolytic galvanizing it is also possible to process material without hot dip refining, i.e., only by continuous annealing with and without subsequent electrolytic galvanizing.
  • a complex component can now be produced from the optionally coated material.
  • the hardening process takes place, in which cooling is performed at air in accordance with the invention.
  • a tempering stage can complete the temperature treatment of the component.
  • FIG. 2 schematically shows the time-temperature profile of the process steps hot rolling and continuous annealing of strips made from the alloy composition according to the invention.
  • the time and temperature-dependent transformation for the hot-rolling process as well as for a heat treatment after cold-rolling, component production, quenching and tempering and optional tempering are shown.
  • FIG. 3 shows in the upper half of the table the chemical composition of the investigated steels.
  • LH®1100 alloys according to the Invention were compared with the reference grades LH®800/LH®900.
  • the alloys according to the invention have, in particular, significantly increased contents of Si and lower contents of Cr and no added V.
  • FIG. 4 shows the mechanical characteristic values along the rolling direction of the investigated steels, with the target values to be achieved for the air-hardened state ( FIG. 4 a ), the values determined in the non-air-hardened initial state ( FIG. 4 b ) and in the air-hardened state ( FIG. 4 c ).
  • the values to be achieved are reached by a safe margin.
  • FIG. 5 shows results of the hole expansion tests according to ISO 16630 (absolute values). The results of the hole expansion tests for variant A (coiling temperature above bainite starting temperature) for process 2 ( FIG. 6 b, 1.2 mm) and process 3 ( FIG. 6 c, 2.0 mm) are shown.
  • the investigated materials have a sheet thickness of 1.2 and 2.0 mm, respectively.
  • the results apply to the test according to ISO 16630.
  • Method 2 corresponds for example to an annealing on a hot galvanizing with a combined direct-fired furnace and a radiant tube furnace as described in FIG. 6 b.
  • Method 3 corresponds, for example, to a process control in a continuous annealing system as described in FIG. 6 c .
  • a reheating of the steel can be achieved in this case directly before the zinc bath.
  • FIG. 6 schematically shows three variants of the temperature-time curves according to the invention during the annealing treatment and cooling and in each case various austenitization conditions.
  • Method 1 shows the annealing and cooling of the produced cold-rolled or hot-rolled or cold-re-rolled steel strip in a continuous annealing line.
  • the strip is heated to a temperature in the range of about 700 to 950° C. (Ac1 to Ac3).
  • the annealed steel strip is then cooled from the annealing temperature to an intermediate temperature (IT) of about 200 to 250° C. at a cooling rate between about 15 and 100° C./sec.
  • a second intermediate temperature (about 300 to 500° C.) is not shown in this schematic illustration.
  • the steel strip is cooled at air at a cooling rate of between about 2 and 30° C./sec until room temperature (RT) is reached, or the cooling to room temperature is maintained at a cooling rate of between about 15 and 100° C./sec.
  • RT room temperature
  • Method 2 shows the process according to method 1, however, for the purpose of hot dip finishing the cooling of the steel strip is intermittently interrupted during the passage through the hot dip vessel to then cool to an intermediate temperature of about 200 to 250° C. at a cooling rate of between about 15 and 100° C./s. Subsequently, the steel strip is cooled at air at a cooling rate of between about 2 and 30° C./sec until room temperature is reached.
  • Method 3 ( FIG. 6 c ) also shows the process according to method 1 in the case of a hot dip refining, but the cooling of the steel strip is interrupted by a short pause (about 1 to 20 s) at an intermediate temperature in the range of approx. 200 to 400° C. and reheated to the temperature (ST) necessary for the hot dip immersion (about 400 to 470° C.). Subsequently, the steel strip is cooled again to an intermediate temperature of approximately 200 to 250° C. With a cooling rate of approx. between 2 and 30° C./s, the final cooling of the steel strip takes place at air until room temperature is reached.
  • Example 1 Cold Strip
  • Ca hot dip refined according to method 2 according to FIG. 6 b the material was hot-rolled beforehand at a final rolling target temperature of 910° C. and coiled at a final rolling target temperature of 650° C. with a thickness of 4.09 mm and after pickling without additional heat treatment (such as batch annealing) cold rolled.
  • the steel according to the invention After tempering, the steel according to the invention has a microstructure consisting of martensite, bainite and residual austenite.
  • This steel shows the following characteristic values after air hardening (initial values in brackets, unprocessed condition) Along the rolling direction, and would correspond, for example, to an LH®1000:
  • the yield ultimate ratio Re/Rm in the longitudinal direction was 62% in the initial state.
  • Example 2 (Cold Strip) (Alloy Composition in % by Weight)
  • Ca hot dip refined according to method 3 according to FIG. 6 c the material was subjected beforehand to hot rolling at a final rolling target temperature of 910° C. and was coiled at a core coiling temperature of 650° C. with a thickness of 4.09 mm and after the pickling was cold rolled without additional heat treatment (such as, batch annealing).
  • the hot dip refined steel was processed with the following parameters analogous to a temperature treatment process (air-hardening):
  • the steel according to the invention After tempering, the steel according to the invention has a microstructure consisting of martensite, bainite and residual austenite.
  • This steel shows the following characteristic values after air hardening (initial values in brackets, unprocessed condition) along the rolling direction, and would correspond, for example, to an LH®1000:
  • the yield ultimate ratio Re/Rm in the longitudinal direction was 62% in the initial state.

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