High manganese high strength steel sheets with excellent crashworthiness and method for manufacturing of it

Abstract

There are provided a high-workability high strength steel sheet with excellent workability due to the high elongation and excellent crashworthiness due to the high yield strength, and a method for manufacturing of it. The high manganese steel sheet includes, by weight: carbon (C): 0.2 to 1.5%, manganese (Mn): 10 to 25%, aluminum (Al): 0.01 to 3.0%, phosphorus (P) 0.03% or less, sulfur (S): 0.03% or less, nitrogen (N): 0.040% or less, at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon (Si): 0.02 to 2.5%, titanium (Ti): 0.01 to 0.10% and niobium (Nb): 0.01 to 0.10%, and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities. The high manganese steel sheet may be a hot-rolled steel sheet, a cold-rolled steel sheet, or a plated steel sheet, and is suitable for elaborate internal sheets as well as structural members of a car body since it has press workability due to the high elongation and high strain hardening index. Also, the high manganese steel sheet may be used for parts such as a front side member of an automobile since, among its characteristics, the steel sheet has an excellent impact absorbing ability.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a high manganese steel sheet used for a automobile steel sheet and a method for manufacturing of it, and more particularly, to a high-workability high strength steel sheet whose workability is excellent due to the high elongation and crashworthiness is excellent due to the high yield strength, and a method for manufacturing of it.BACKGROUND ART[0002]Motor companies have increasingly used lightweight and high-strength materials for the purpose of preventing environmental pollutions and improving fuel efficiency and stability, which is one of important characteristics that materials used for structural members should have in addition to the automobile parts. However, the increased strength of the materials results in deterioration in elongation of steel, and therefore a dual-phase steel, a transformation induced plasticity steel and the like, all of which have excellent formability, have been increasingly used to solve the above pr...

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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides a high-workability high-strength steel sheet that has excellent workability and crashworthiness. It has high elongation and can be easily processed. The steel sheet has a high yield strength and can be cold-rolled at a high reduction ratio. The method of manufacturing the cold-rolled steel sheet involves homogenizing the steel, hot-rolling, and cold-rolling the steel sheet. The steel sheet is suitable for use in automobile parts and can be easily designed and molded. The technical effects of the invention are to improve the workability and crashworthiness of automobile parts, reduce air pollution, and improve design flexibility.

Problems solved by technology

However, the increased strength of the materials results in deterioration in elongation of steel, and therefore a dual-phase steel, a transformation induced plasticity steel and the like, all of which have excellent formability, have been increasingly used to solve the above problems.

However, high strength steel for processing, used as structural parts and internal sheets for automobiles developed thus far, does not satisfy workability that automobile parts require, and therefore it is difficult to manufacture parts with complicated structure.

The welding process is hampered by a variety of restrictions, for example, difficulty in designing a car body since strength of a welded portion is different from that of the parent metal, and parts characteristics are deteriorated due to the increased strength in the welded portion, and the manufacturing cost is extremely high since the parts are molded separately.

However, when the high strength steel such as low carbon steel is used as the automotive steel sheet, it is impossible to ensure up to 30% elongation in high strength steels whose tensile strength is greater than 800 MPa.

Accordingly, it is difficult to design parts easily, for example, make simple structures of parts, since it is difficult to apply the high strength steel of greater than 800 MPa to complicated and elaborate parts.

In the case of the Japanese patent, the high manganese steel sheet has a high ductility by the addition of high manganese, but may be easily broken after its processing since strain hardening is serious in its transformed region.

Also, in the case of the international patent, the high manganese steel sheet has high ductility, but its electroplating and hot plating properties are low due to the addition of a large amount of silicon.

Also, the steel sheets have excellent workability but deteriorated crashworthiness due to the low yield strength.

However, the high manganese steel sheet has low yield strength due to its austenite structure, and therefore the problems regarding the high manganese steel sheet remains to be solved.

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