Abstract:
A high strength alloyed hot dip galvanized steel sheet obtained by subjecting the surface of a high strength steel sheet to alloyed hot dip galvanization and formed from a steel sheet containing in mass% main components and containing at least 40 vol% bainite and/or martensite 8 60 vol% retained austenite and less than 40 vol% ferrite with the remainder comprising unavoidable structures. In the alloyed hot dip galvanized steel sheet the total thickness of the G1 layer and the G layer (T?1+T?) is 2 µm or less in the alloy layers formed by hot dip galvanization and the G1 phase/G phase thickness ratio (T?1/T?) is 1 or less. A tensile strength of 980 MPa or above can be easily imparted to the alloyed hot dip galvanized steel sheet. The alloyed hot dip galvanized steel sheet has excellent coating adherence and coating separation during machining can be suppressed.
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c/o NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION 6 1 Marunouchi 2 chome Chiyoda ku Tokyo
1008071
2. FUJITA Soshi
c/o NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION 6 1 Marunouchi 2 chome Chiyoda ku Tokyo
1008071
3. SATO Koichi
c/o NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION 6 1 Marunouchi 2 chome Chiyoda ku Tokyo
1008071
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TITLE OF THE INVENTION
Alloyed Hot-Dip Galvanized Steel Sheet
5
TECHNICAL FIELD
[ OOOl]
The present invention relates to an alloyed hot-dip
galvanized steel sheet. More specifically, the present
10 invention relates to a high-strength alloyed hot-dip
galvanized steel sheet, which is capable of easily
realizing a high strength (for example, a tensile
strength of 980 MPa or more), is excellent in the coating
adhesion, and is suitable as a member in automotive
15 field, home appliance field, building material field, and
the like.
BACKGROUND ART
[0002]
2 0 Heretofore, alloyed hot-dip galvanized steel sheets
have been used mainly in the automotive field. However,
in the plating layer of the alloyed hot-dip galvanized
steel sheet, a Zn-Fe alloy layer, which is inferior in
the ductility to the underlying steel sheet, is present.
25 In a case where a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more is
required, this layer has been considered to be a problem,
because the plating (or coating) adhesion thereof is poor
and the plating is liable to be separated from the
interface between the plating and the underlying steel
30 sheet, at the time of working such as press molding, to
thereby readily cause an appearance failure such as
indentation mark.
Therefore, Patent Document 1 describes, as a measure
for improving the plating adhesion, a method of enhancing
3 5 the plating adhesion by a so-called anchor effect, that
is, by increasing the unevenness at the interface between
the coating and the underlying steel sheet. Also, Patent
Document 2 discloses that when a steel sheet is heated,
and then is pickled, and after the removal of the oxide
layer on the surface, is subjected to plating, to thereby
improve the adhesion.
5 Also, Patent Document 3 discloses a high-strength
high-ductility hot-dip galvanized steel sheet containing,
in terms of volume fraction, from 30 to 90% of a ferrite
phase, 5% or more of bainite, 10% or less of martensite,
and from 5 to 30% of a retained austenite phase. Patent
10 Document 4 discloses a high-strength cold-rolled steel
sheet, where the density of dislocations contained in the
steel sheet is 8x10'' (dislocations/rnrn2) or less, and the
static/dynamic ratio (=FS2/FS1) as a ratio between a
quasi-static strength (FS1) at a strain rate of 0.0067 ( s -
15 I), and a dynamic strength (FS2) at a strain rate of 1,000
(s-l) is 1.05 or more. Patent Document 5 discloses an
alloyed hot-dip steel sheet comprising a base iron, and a
specific plating layer disposed at least on one surface
thereof, wherein plating layer does not have an q phase
20 or < phase in the plating layer surface, the plating layer
has a composition of Fe: from 8 to 12% and Al: from 0.05
to 0.25%, with the balance being Zn, and the r phase at
the interface with the base iron is l.O/pm or less.
However, in the prior art, the difference in
25 ductility between the plating layer and the underlying
steel sheet, which may be fundamentally a main factor
contributing to the plating adhesion, has not been
solved, and therefore, the plating (or coating)
separation cannot be prevented from occurring during
3 0 severe working.
RELATED ART
PATENT DOCUMENT
[0003]
3 5 [Patent Document 11 JP-A (Japanese Unexamined Patent
Publication; KOKAI) No. 2011-94215
[Patent Document 21 JP-A No. 2002-173756
[Patent Document 31 JP-A No. 2005-133201
[Patent Document 41 JP-A No. 2002-30403
[Patent Document 51 JP-A No. 64-68456
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SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED BY THE INVENTION
[0004]
An object of the present invention is to provide an
10 alloyed hot-dip galvanized steel sheet with a high
strength (for example, a tensile strength of 980 MPa or
more), which can be prevented from plating separation
during working.
Another object of the present invention is to
15 provide a high-strength alloyed hot-dip galvanized steel
sheet, which is excellent in the plating adhesion.
MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM
[0005]
20 As a result of earnest study, the present inventors
have found that when the ductility of a steel sheet
itself can be reduced by the structure control of the
steel sheet and further, the ductility of the plating
itself is increased by controlling the amounts of T1
25 phase and r phase in the plating phase, the plating
separation can be suppressed.
[0006]
As a result of further study based on the above
discovery, the present inventors have also found that
3 0 when the total thickness of T1 phase and r phase present
in the alloyed hot-dip galvanized layer is set to 2 pm or
less, and the thickness of I-1 phase having the lowest
ductility among Zn-Fe alloy phases is set to be smaller
than that of the I- phase, the plating adhesion can be
35 further enhanced.
[00071
According to the knowledge and investigations of the
present inventors, the mechanism for providing the abovedescribed
effect in the present invention may be presumed
as follows.
5 That is, the present inventors have found that
fundamentally, even when the ductility of plating layer
is increased, the rl phase (Fe5Zn2l, Fe content: 18% or
more and less than 24%) and the r phase (Fe3Znlo, Fe: 24%
or more and 32%nor less), which may be inevitably
10 produced at the interface between the plating layer and
the underlying steel sheet in an alloyed hot-dip
galvanized layer, can hardly have a higher ductility than
the ductility of the underlying steel sheet, and the
plating cannot follow the deformation of the underlying
15 steel sheet during working, to thereby cause plating
separation.
On the other hand, the present inventors have also
found that when the ductility of a steel sheet itself is
reduced by the structure control of the steel sheet, and
2 0 the ductility of the plating itself is increased by
controlling the amounts of T1 phase and r phase in the
plating phase, the plating separation can be suppressed.
In a case where the ductility of a steel sheet itself is
reduced, it can be assumed that the workability of the
25 steel sheet may be lowered as compared to that of a
conventional steel sheet, and a crack may be early
generated in the underlying steel sheet, to thereby cause
fracture. However, in the present invention, plating is
applied to a steel sheet while controlling the amounts of
3 0 rl phase and r phase therein, so that fracture of the
steel sheet can be prevented at the same level as, or to
a higher level than that of the conventional steel sheet.
The reason why such a phenomenon occurs may not be
necessarily clear, but the present inventors may presume
3 5 that although a crack may be early generated in the
underlying steel sheet, because plating with excellent
ductility is present on the steel sheet in the present
invention, the stress concentration on the cracking part
may be relieved.
[OOOS]
5 That is, the present invention relates to a highstrength
alloyed hot-dip galvanized steel sheet excellent
in elongation and plating adhesion. The present
invention may include, for example, the following
embodiments.
10 [0009]
[I] An alloyed hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, which
is a steel sheet comprising, in mass%,
C: from 0.10 to 0.4%,
Si: from 0.01 to 0.5%,
Mn: from 1.0 to 3.0%,
0: 0.006% or less,
P: 0.04% or less,
S: 0.01% or less,
Al: from 0.1 to 3.0%, and
20 N: 0.01% or less, with the balance being Fe and
unavoidable impurities,
wherein the structure of the steel sheet further
comprises, in terms of volume fraction, 40% or more of
the total content of bainite and martensite, from 8 to
25 60% of retained austenite, and less than 40% of ferrite,
with the balance being an unavoidable structure, and
alloying hot-dip galvanization is applied to the steel
sheet surface, and
wherein the total thickness of the thickness Tyl of
30 T1 layer and the thickness Ty of r layer in the alloyed
hot-dip galvanized layer is 2 pm or less and the ratio
(Tyl/Ty) of thickness between T1 phase and r phase is 1 or
less.
[OOlO]
3 5 [2] The alloyed hot-dip galvanized steel sheet
according to 111, wherein the ratio ( (T<+TG) / (Tyl+Ty) 1 of
the total thickness of thickness T< of < layer and
thickness TF of 6 layer in the alloyed hot-dip galvanized
layer to the total thickness of T1 layer and r layer is
from 1.5 to 90.
5 [3] The alloyed hot-dip galvanized steel sheet
according to [I] or [2], wherein the steel sheet further
comprises one member or two or more members of, in mass%,
Cr: from 0.05 to 1.0%,
Ni: from 0.05 to 1.0%,
Cu: from 0.05 to 1.0%,
Nb: from 0.005 to 0.3%,
Ti: from 0.005 to 0.3%,
V: from 0.005 to 0.5%,
B: from 0.0001 to 0.01%,
Ca: from 0.0005 to 0.04%,
Mg: from 0.0005 to 0.04%,
La: from 0.0005 to 0.04%,
Ce: from 0.0005 to 0.04%, and
Y: from 0.0005 to 0.04%.
20 [4] A process for producing an alloyed hot-dip
galvanized steel sheet, comprising:
heating a steel material comprising, in mass%,
C: from 0.10 to 0.4%,
Si: from 0.01 to 0.5%,
Mn: from 1.0 to 3.0%,
0: 0.006% or less,
P: 0.04% or less,
S: 0.01% or less,
Al: from 0.1 to 3.0%, and
N: 0.01% or less, with the balance being Fe and
unavoidable impurities, at 1,100 to 1,300°C and then
subjecting the steel sheet to a hot rolling treatment at
a finish rolling temperature of Ar3 temperature or more;
taking up the hot-rolled steel sheet at a take-up
3 5 temperature of 700°C or less and then cold-rolling the
steel sheet;
annealing the cold-rolled steel sheet at a maximum
heating temperature of 750 to 900°C;
cooling the annealed steel sheet to a plating bath
immersion temperature at a cooling rate of 3 to 200°C/sec
5 in the range of 500 to 750°C and then holding the steel
sheet at 350 to 500°C for 10 to 1,000 seconds;
performing a plating treatment by immersing the
steel sheet in a hot-dip galvanizing bath having an A1
concentration WA~an d an Fe concentration WFe satisfying,
10 in mass%, the following relational expressions (1) and
(2), at a steel sheet temperature ranging, on immersion
in a plating bath, from a temperature 40°C lower than the
hot-dip galvanizing bath temperature to a temperature 50°C
higher than the hot-dip galvanizing bath temperature, in
15 a nitrogen atmosphere having a nitrogen content of 95
mass% or more, in which the logarithm log(PHzo/PHz) value
of the ratio between hydrogen partial pressure PH2 and
water vapor partial pressure PHZO is from -5 to -2:
O.O~90;
C: a tensile strength of 980 Mpa or more and
1.5<[ (T<+T6) / (Tyl+Ty) }<90; and
2 5 D: a tensile strength of less than 980 Mpa and
1.55{ (T<+TF) / (Tyl+Ty) }