The invention discloses a process for improving rare-earth high-strength steel
impact toughness. The process comprises the following steps of KR desulfurization slagging off, converter
smelting, LF refining, RH refining and rare-earth treating,
continuous casting, heating, rolling, accelerated cooling and
heat treating. According to the process, aiming at the influence on the
microstructure of low-
alloy high-strength steel in the case that rare-earth exists, a research shows that rare-earth
cerium Ce can improve the forms of inclusions and purify grain boundaries, so that the strength of the grain boundaries is improved, the possibility that cracks extend due to the through defects is reduced, and the
impact toughness is improved; and addition, the
impact toughness can be improved throughrefining
austenite grain boundaries, and meanwhile, adding the rare-earth
cerium Ce can enable the ductile-brittle
transition temperature of the steel to reduce by about 10 DEG C.