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Ultra High-Strength Steel Sheets for Bodies, Reinforcement Parts, and Seat Frame Parts of Automobile
—Ultra High-Strength Steel Sheets Leading to Great Improvement in Crashworthiness—
MEGA Tetsuya   HASEGAWA Kohei   KAWABE Hidetaka
  Abstract
  JFE Steel has developed and commercialized from TS780 to TS1470MPa grade cold-rolled ultra high-strength steel sheets with excellent press-formability, spot-weldability, and stability of mechanical properties and dramatically improve crashworthiness and fuel economy when applied in automobile bodies/reinforcement parts and seat frame parts. In response to strict formability requirements, the company conducted basic and detailed studies of changes in the microstructure and propagation of microscopic cracks during forming, and realized remarkable improvements in elongation and stretch-flange formability in comparison with conventional steels by adopting a low carbon equivalent design. In particular, as expanded application of TS980MPa grade steel sheets is expected in the future, JFE Steel has developed a lineup of three types of TS980MPa grade steels with different balances of mechanical properties corresponding to the material application and joining method. These products have already earned an excellent reputation with users. This paper introduces two newly developed TS980MPa grade cold rolled steel sheets, one with excellent stretch-flange formability and the other for mechanical joining. Surface cracking in mechanical joining, which is strongly related to local elongation, has been suppressed by achieving a single martensite phase.
  
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