Metal treatment – Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical... – Producing or treating layered – bonded – welded – or...
Patent
1992-08-26
1995-04-25
Lewis, Michael
Metal treatment
Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical...
Producing or treating layered, bonded, welded, or...
148500, 148503, 148526, 148533, 427433, 428659, C21D 178, C23C 206
Patent
active
054095530
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to a process for manufacturing galvannealed steel sheets which are used for making automobile bodies and parts, etc., and particularly which exhibit excellent anti-powdering property when press formed, and stable frictional properties in a coil.
BACKGROUND ART
There has recently been an increasing demand for galvannealed steel sheets as the rust-proof steel sheets for automobiles, since they exhibit high corrosion resistance and weldability when painted. The latest tendency has been toward sheets having a heavier c/w to ensure high corrosion resistance.
These galvanized steel sheets are required to have excellent press-formability and exhibit excellent anti-powdering property when press formed. These requirements have lately been becoming more stringent, and the increasing coating weight has been creating a big problem in the maintenance of, above all, excellent anti-powdering property.
There is known a process which comprises heating galvanized steel sheets rapidly to cause the alloying of a part of coating, and batch annealing them to improve their anti-powdering property. This process is effective in achieving an improved anti-powdering property, but has the drawback of being expensive.
Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. Hei 1-279738 discloses a process for achieving an improved anti-powdering property in line. According to its disclosure, steel sheets are plated in a bath containing 0.04 to 0.12% A1, are heated to a temperature of at least 470.degree. C. rapidly within two seconds to undergo alloying, and are cooled to a temperature not exceeding 420.degree. C. rapidly within two seconds, whereby galvannealed steel sheets consisting mainly of a .delta..sub.1 phase are manufactured.
Due to the relatively high temperature which the process employs for the alloying treatment, however, it is very likely that alloying may proceed so rapidly that the growth of a thick .GAMMA. phase may result in a low anti-powdering property. Although Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. Hei 1-279738 proposes rapid cooling within two seconds from the temperature range in which alloying is effected, to the temperature range not exceeding 420.degree. C. to prevent excessive alloying, a proper alloying pattern varies with the coating weight and the line speed, and the use of the process, therefore, calls for the provision of a multiplicity of sources of heating and cooling mediums along a line and thereby brings about an increase in the cost of equipment.
Moreover, a direct gas-fired alloying furnace which is usually employed is likely to have a temperature variation along the width and length of a steel strip, and such temperature variation makes difficult the strict control of the coating structure as hereinabove stated and results in the formation of a coating having excessively alloyed portions or containing a residual .zeta. phase. The resulting plated steel sheet lacks uniformity in the amount of its .delta..sub.1 phase and therefore in its anti-powdering property. The amount of the .zeta. phase has so close a bearing on the frictional properties that those portions of the plated steel sheet which contain the residual .zeta. phase have a higher frictional coefficient and are, therefore, lower in press formability.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
In view of the problems of the prior art as hereinabove pointed out, we, the inventors of this invention, have studied an alloying reaction on a galvanized steel sheet, and found the following: and is not formed at any temperature exceeding it; and .delta..sub.1 phase if the principal reaction (the reaction which causes a molten zinc phase to disappear) is caused to take place at a temperature exceeding 495.degree. C., followed by cooling. FIGS. 1 and 2 show by way of example phase changes resulting from isothermal alloying reactions on galvanized steel sheets at 450.degree. C. and 500.degree. C., respectively. While the alloying at 450.degree. C. results in the formation of a .zeta. phase, the alloying at 500.degree. C. hardly
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patent: 5049453 (1991-09-01), Suemitsu et al.
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Abe Masaki
Hiraya Akira
Inagaki Jun-ichi
Morita Masaya
Sagiyama Masaru
Koehler Robert R.
Lewis Michael
NKK Corporation
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