The invention discloses ultra-low carbon
bake hardening steel with a short process and a long aging period and a production method of the ultra-low carbon
bake hardening steel. The ultra-low carbon
bake hardening steel comprises the following chemical components: 0.001 to 0.0035 percent of C, less than or equal to 0.03 percent of Si, 0.1 to 0.6 percent of Mn, less than or equal to 0.005 percent of S, 0.020 to 0.065 percent of Als, 0.005 to 0.02 percent of Nb, 0.0003 to 0.001 percent of B, 0.05 to 0.15 percent of Cu, less than or equal to 0.0035 percent of N, 0.0008 to 0.0015 percent of
solid solution C and the balance of iron and inevitable impurities. The production method comprises the working procedures of
smelting, double-roller thin strip cast rolling, cold rolling,
continuous annealing and leveling. The method comprises the following steps: strictly controlling the components of
molten steel, cooling and solidifying between
casting rollers to form a cast strip of 3-6 mm, rolling to obtain a hot-rolled coil of 2-5 mm after online one-pass hot rolling and flattening, carrying out cold rolling to obtain a cold hard coil of 0.5-1.0 mm, and accurately controlling a
continuous annealing process to obtain the bake-
hardened steel of which the yield strength is 235-280 MPa, the tensile strength is 320-400 MPa, the elongation A80 is greater than or equal to 38%, the bake-hardening value BH2 is greater than or equal to 45 MPa, the r value is greater than or equal to 2.0 and the
work hardening index n is greater than or equal to 0.2. In addition, the steel does not have
natural aging after being stored for 6 months in summer, and shows good storage stability.