CN112522633B

CN112522633B - Thin-gauge martensitic steel strip and manufacturing method thereof

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Publication number: CN112522633B
Application number: CN201910888738.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴建春; 方园
Original assignee: Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd
Current assignee: Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-09-19
Filing date: 2019-09-19
Publication date: 2022-06-24
Anticipated expiration: 2039-09-19
Also published as: CN112522633A

Abstract

A thin martensitic steel strip and its manufacturing method, its component weight percent is: c: 0.16-0.26%, Si: 0.1-0.5%, Mn: 0.4-1.7%, P is less than or equal to 0.02%, S is less than or equal to 0.007%, N: 0.004-0.010%, Als:<0.001% of total oxygen [ O ]]_T: 0.007-0.020%; the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities, and simultaneously satisfies: contains Cu: 0.1-0.6% or Sn: 0.005-0.04% of one or two of the components; contains Nb: 0.01-0.08%, Mo: 0.1-0.4% of one or two; Mn/S>250. The method utilizes residual elements such as Sn, Cu and the like in the scrap steel to smelt the molten steel, and selectively adds microalloy elements such as Nb/Mo and the like in the steel; in the smelting process, the alkalinity of slag, the type and melting point of inclusions in steel, the free oxygen content in molten steel and the content of acid-soluble aluminum Als are controlled; and then performing twin-roll thin strip continuous casting to obtain a cast strip, and performing online hot rolling and gas atomization rapid cooling to obtain the product.

Description

Thin-gauge martensitic steel strip and manufacturing method thereof

Technical Field

The invention belongs to a continuous casting process, and particularly relates to a thin martensitic steel strip and a manufacturing method thereof.

Background

In the traditional steel production flow, tin (Sn) and copper (Cu) are typical residual elements or harmful elements in steel, the Sn and the Cu are difficult and expensive to remove fully in the steel making process, once the steel contains the Sn and the Cu, the Sn and the Cu cannot be completely eliminated basically, and the contents of the Sn and the Cu can be reduced only by diluting molten steel, which causes the increase of the smelting cost of steel products.

In recent years, as scrap steel is continuously recycled, scrap steel resources are more and more, electricity prices are continuously reduced, domestic scrap-based short-flow electric furnace steel making is increasingly started, so that the content of residual elements such as Sn and Cu in steel is gradually increased, Sn and Cu in steel are easy to segregate and are easy to concentrate in grain boundaries to cause defects such as cracks, and the like, so that the content of Sn and Cu elements in the traditional process is strictly controlled, and in common structural steel, the content of Sn and Cu has clear requirements: sn (wt%) is less than or equal to 0.005%; cu (wt%) is less than or equal to 0.2%.

Therefore, if the residual elements such as Sn, Cu and the like in steel (particularly scrap steel) can be reasonably utilized, the 'harm is turned into good', the positive influence on the whole metallurgical boundary is generated; the method can realize the effective utilization of the existing steel scrap or low-quality inferior ore resources (high tin ore and high copper ore), promote the recycling of steel, reduce the production cost and realize the sustainable development of the steel industry.

The traditional thin strip steel is produced by casting blanks with the thickness of 70-200mm through multi-pass continuous rolling, and the traditional hot rolling process flow is as follows: continuous casting, casting blank reheating and heat preservation, rough rolling, finish rolling, cooling and coiling, namely firstly, a casting blank with the thickness of about 200mm is obtained through continuous casting, after the casting blank is reheated and heat preserved, rough rolling and finish rolling are carried out to obtain a steel strip with the thickness generally larger than 2mm, and finally, laminar cooling and coiling are carried out to the steel strip to complete the whole hot rolling production process. The difficulty is relatively great if steel strip with a thickness of less than 1.5mm inclusive is to be produced, which is usually done by subsequent cold rolling and annealing of the hot rolled strip. And the process flow is long, the energy consumption is high, the number of unit equipment is large, the capital construction cost is high, and the production cost is high.

The thin slab continuous casting and rolling process flow is as follows: continuous casting, heat preservation and soaking of a casting blank, hot continuous rolling, cooling and coiling. The main differences between the process and the traditional process are as follows: the thickness of a casting blank in the thin slab process is greatly reduced to 50-90mm, and the casting blank is thin, so that the casting blank can be reduced to the required specification before finish rolling only by carrying out 1-2 times of rough rolling (when the thickness of the casting blank is 70-90 mm) or not carrying out the rough rolling (when the thickness of the casting blank is 50 mm) on the casting blank in the traditional process through repeated multi-pass rolling; and the casting blank of the thin slab process directly enters a soaking pit furnace for soaking and heat preservation without cooling or supplementing a small amount of heat, so that the thin slab process greatly shortens the process flow, reduces the energy consumption and the investment, thereby reducing the production cost. However, the strength of the steel is improved due to the faster cooling rate of the continuous casting and rolling of the sheet billet, the yield ratio is improved, so that the rolling load is increased, and the thickness specification of the hot rolled product which can be economically produced cannot be too thin, generally more than or equal to 1.5mm, see Chinese patents CN200610123458.1, CN200610035800.2 and CN200710031548.2, and the elements Sn and Cu are not related to the patents.

An ESP (electronic stability program) which is developed in recent years is an improved process developed on the basis of the semi-endless thin slab continuous casting and rolling process, the ESP realizes endless rolling of slab continuous casting, a heating furnace with slab flame cutting, heat preservation, soaking and slab transition functions is cancelled, the length of the whole production line is greatly shortened to about 190 meters, the thickness of a slab continuously cast by a continuous casting machine is 90-110mm, the width is 1100-1600mm, and the continuously cast slab plays a role in heat preservation and soaking on the slab through a section of induction heating roller bed, then sequentially carrying out the procedures of rough rolling, finish rolling, layer cooling and coiling to obtain the hot rolled plate, and the process realizes endless rolling, the thinnest hot rolled plate with the thickness of 0.8mm can be obtained, the specification range of the hot rolled plate is expanded, and the single production line yield can reach the scale of 220 kilotons per year. At present, the process is rapidly developed and popularized, and a plurality of ESP production lines are operated and produced in the world at present.

The process flow shorter than the thin slab continuous casting and rolling is a thin strip continuous casting and rolling process, the thin strip continuous casting technology is a leading-edge technology in the fields of metallurgy and material research, the emergence of the technology brings a revolution to the steel industry, the production process of steel strips in the traditional metallurgy industry is changed, continuous casting, rolling, even heat treatment and the like are integrated into a whole, the produced thin slab is subjected to online hot rolling once to form a thin steel strip, the production process is greatly simplified, the production period is shortened, and the length of the process line is only about 50 m; the equipment investment is correspondingly reduced, the product cost is obviously reduced, and the method is a low-carbon and environment-friendly hot-rolled thin strip production process. The twin-roll thin strip continuous casting process is a main form of the thin strip continuous casting process and is the only thin strip continuous casting process for realizing industrialization in the world.

The typical process flow of twin roll strip casting is shown in fig. 1, molten steel in a large ladle 1 is directly poured into a molten pool 7 surrounded by two relatively rotating and rapidly cooled crystallizing

rolls

8a, 8b and side sealing devices 6a, 6b through a large ladle long nozzle 2, a tundish 3, a submerged nozzle 4 and a distributor 5, the molten steel is solidified on the circumferential surfaces of the rotating crystallizing

rolls

8a, 8b to form solidified shells and gradually grow, a cast strip 11 with the thickness of 1-5mm is formed at the minimum clearance (nip point) of the two crystallizing rolls, the cast strip is guided by a guide plate 9 to a pinch roll 12 and is fed into a rolling mill 13 to be rolled into a thin strip with the thickness of 0.7-2.5mm, then the thin strip is cooled by a cooling device 14 and is cut by a flying shear device 16 and is finally fed into a coiler 19 to be coiled.

Martensite in carbon steel is formed by rapid cooling or quenching of austenite. Austenite has a particular FCC crystal structure. Under natural cooling, austenite transforms into ferrite and cementite. However, under rapid cooling or quenching conditions, the austenite of the FCC crystal structure transforms into highly strained ferrite of the BCT crystal structure, which is a supersaturated solid solution of carbon. The large number of dislocations caused by shear strain is the primary strengthening mechanism of this steel grade. The martensite effect begins when the martensite start temperature is reached during austenite cooling and the parent austenite becomes thermodynamically unstable. As the sample is quenched, the proportion of austenite that transforms to martensite increases until the transformation is complete at the lower transformation temperature.

Martensitic steels are increasingly used in applications where high strength is required, such as automotive steels. The typical tensile strength range is generally 1000-1500MPa, and the steel is mainly used for safety parts such as bumpers and the like for vehicle body collision protection, in recent years, the proportion of high-strength steel applied to automobiles is increased year by year, and the application of thin-specification high-strength martensitic steel products provides wide space for the automobile industry in light weight, energy consumption reduction and fuel economy improvement.

The thin-strip continuous casting process is adopted to produce the martensitic steel, and has stronger manufacturing and cost advantages for thin hot-rolled high-strength products with the thickness of less than 1.5mm (inclusive) due to the thinner thickness. The martensite steel strip is directly supplied in a hot rolling state, the product specification characteristic thickness is 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.25, 1.4mm, 1.5mm and the like, because the product thickness is thinner, the martensite steel with the traditional thin specification is produced by adopting a hot continuous rolling process firstly, then is subjected to cold rolling, enters a continuous annealing line, is heated to an austenite phase region, and finally is quenched to form the martensite steel due to the capacity limitation of the traditional hot continuous rolling line, and the production cost of the martensite high-strength steel with the thin specification is increased by the production process.

When the hot-rolled strip steel is used as a thin hot-rolled plate or a product which is 'hot to cool', the requirement on the surface quality of the strip steel is high. It is generally required that the thinner the scale on the surface of the strip, the better the scale formation is, and it is required to control the scale formation in the subsequent stages of the strip casting, for example, in the typical twin roll strip casting process, a closed chamber device is used from the crystallizing roll to the entrance of the rolling mill to prevent the oxidation of the strip, and the thickness of the scale on the surface of the strip is controlled by adding hydrogen gas in the closed chamber device such as US6920912 and controlling the oxygen content to be less than 5% in US 20060182989. However, there are few patents on how to control the thickness of the scale during the transport from the rolling mill to the coiling, and particularly, in the cooling of the strip by laminar cooling or spray cooling, the strip at high temperature is in contact with cooling water, and the scale thickness on the surface of the cast strip increases rapidly. Meanwhile, the contact between the high-temperature strip steel and the cooling water also brings about a plurality of problems: firstly, water spots (rusts) are formed on the surface of strip steel, which affects the surface quality; secondly, cooling water for laminar cooling or spray cooling easily causes uneven local cooling on the surface of the strip steel and uneven microstructure inside the strip steel, thereby causing uneven performance of the strip steel and influencing product quality; thirdly, the local cooling on the surface of the strip steel is not uniform, which causes the deterioration of the plate shape and influences the quality of the plate shape.

However, the continuous strip casting has the fast solidification process characteristics, so that the produced steel generally has the problems of uneven structure, low elongation, high yield ratio and poor formability; meanwhile, the austenite grains of the cast strip have obvious nonuniformity, which can cause the structure of a final product obtained after austenite phase transformation to be nonuniform, thereby causing the performance of the product to be unstable. Therefore, the thin strip continuous casting production line is adopted to produce high-strength products required by the automobile industry and the petrochemical industry, certain difficulty is achieved, certain challenge is achieved, and therefore, when the high-strength martensitic steel is produced by adopting the thin strip continuous casting, the high-strength martensitic steel cannot be produced by adopting the traditional component process, and breakthroughs in components and processes are needed.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a thin-specification martensitic steel strip and a manufacturing method thereof, the thin-strip continuous casting process is adopted to produce the hot-rolled thin-specification martensitic steel strip, a plurality of complex intermediate steps in the traditional martensitic steel strip production can be omitted, the desired product thickness can be achieved through single-pass online hot rolling, cold rolling is not needed, the thin-strip hot-rolled thin-specification martensitic steel strip is directly supplied to the market for use, and the purpose of 'cooling with hot strips' is achieved; the invention can fully utilize the Cu and Sn elements in the scrap steel, turns the Cu and Sn elements in the steel into harmful and beneficial, promotes the recycling of scrap steel resources, effectively reduces the production cost and realizes the sustainable development of the steel industry. Compared with the traditional cold-rolled martensite steel strip, the production energy consumption and CO2 emission are greatly reduced, and the steel strip is an environment-friendly product.

In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme of the invention is as follows:

the method utilizes residual elements such as Sn, Cu and the like in the scrap steel to smelt the molten steel, and selectively adds microalloy elements such as Nb/Mo and the like in the steel; in the smelting process, the alkalinity of slag, the type and melting point of inclusions in steel, the free oxygen content in molten steel and the content of acid-soluble aluminum Als are controlled; then, performing double-roller thin strip continuous casting to cast a casting strip with the thickness of 1.5-3mm, directly entering a lower closed chamber with non-oxidizing atmosphere after the casting strip exits from a crystallization roller, and entering an online rolling mill for hot rolling under the closed condition; cooling the rolled strip steel to below 300 ℃ by adopting a gas atomization rapid quenching mode; the finally produced steel coil can be subjected to isothermal tempering treatment and can also enter a continuous annealing production line for aging treatment.

Specifically, the thin martensitic steel strip provided by the invention comprises the following components in percentage by weight: c: 0.16-0.26%, Si: 0.1-0.5%, Mn: 0.4-1.7%, P is less than or equal to 0.02%, S is less than or equal to 0.007%, N: 0.004-0.010%, Als:<0.001%, total oxygen [ O ]]_T: 0.007-0.020%; the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities, and simultaneously satisfies:

contains Cu: 0.1-0.6% or Sn: 0.005-0.04% of one or two of the components;

contains Nb: 0.01-0.08%, Mo: 0.1-0.4% of one or two;

Mn/S>250。

the yield strength of the martensite steel strip is 800-1200MPa, the tensile strength is 1100-1900MPa, and the elongation is 3-12%.

In the composition design of the martensite steel strip of the invention:

the reasons for limiting the chemical composition of the martensitic steel strip according to the invention are as follows:

c: c is the most economical and basic strengthening element in steel, and enhances the strength of steel by solid solution strengthening and precipitation strengthening. C is an essential element for precipitating cementite during austenite transformation, so the strength level of the steel is determined to a great extent by the content of C, namely, higher C content corresponds to higher strength level. However, since interstitial solid solution and precipitation of C are harmful to the plasticity and toughness of steel, and an excessively high C content is disadvantageous to welding performance, the C content cannot be excessively high, and the strength of steel is compensated by appropriate addition of alloying elements. Meanwhile, for conventional slab continuous casting, casting in a peritectic reaction region is easy to generate surface cracks of a casting blank, and a steel leakage accident can happen in severe cases. The same is true for thin strip casting, where casting a cast strip in the peritectic reaction zone is prone to surface cracking and, in severe cases, strip breakage. Therefore, strip casting of Fe — C alloys also requires avoidance of the peritectic reaction zone. Therefore, the content range of C adopted by the invention is 0.16-0.26%.

Si: si acts as a solid solution strengthening in steel, and addition of Si to steel improves steel purity and deoxidation, but too high a Si content leads to deterioration of weldability and toughness in weld heat affected zone. Therefore, the Si content range adopted by the invention is 0.1-0.5%.

Mn: mn is one of the cheapest alloy elements, can improve the hardenability of steel, has considerable solid solubility in the steel, improves the strength of the steel through solid solution strengthening, basically has no damage to the plasticity and the toughness of the steel, is the most main strengthening element for improving the strength of the steel, and can play a role in deoxidizing in the steel. However, too high Mn content results in deterioration of weldability and toughness of weld heat-affected zone. Therefore, the Mn content range adopted by the invention is 0.4-1.7%.

P: high content of P is easy to be segregated in grain boundary, increases cold brittleness of steel, deteriorates welding performance, reduces plasticity and deteriorates cold bending performance. In the thin strip continuous casting process, the solidification and cooling rates of the cast strip are extremely high, and the segregation of P can be effectively inhibited, so that the disadvantages of P can be effectively avoided, and the advantages of P can be fully exerted. Therefore, in the invention, the P content is higher than that in the traditional process, the content of the P element is properly relaxed, the dephosphorization procedure is eliminated in the steelmaking procedure, in the actual operation, the dephosphorization procedure is not required to be carried out intentionally, and no extra phosphorus is required to be added, and the range of the P content is less than or equal to 0.02 percent.

S: in general, S is a harmful element in steel, causes hot brittleness of steel, reduces ductility and toughness of steel, and causes cracks during rolling. S also reduces weldability and corrosion resistance. Therefore, in the present invention, S is also controlled as an impurity element, and the content thereof is in the range of 0.007% or less. And Mn/S > 250.

And Als: in order to control inclusions in steel, the invention requires that Al cannot be used for deoxidation, and in the use of refractory materials, the additional introduction of Al is avoided as much as possible, and the content of acid-soluble aluminum Als is strictly controlled: < 0.001%.

N: similar to the element C, the element N can improve the strength of the steel through interstitial solid solution, however, the interstitial solid solution of N has great harm to the plasticity and the toughness of the steel, and the yield ratio of the steel can be improved due to the existence of free N, so that the content of N cannot be too high. The content range of N adopted by the invention is 0.004-0.010%.

Nb: in the strip casting process, the added alloying element Nb can be caused to exist mainly in a solid solution state in the steel strip due to its unique rapid solidification and rapid cooling characteristics, and precipitation of Nb is hardly observed even if the steel strip is cooled to room temperature. The Nb element which is dissolved in the steel can play a role in solid solution strengthening; nb which is solid dissolved in steel is advantageous in that it promotes martensitic transformation after austenitic hot rolling, since it can drag austenite grain boundaries by solute atoms. The content range of Nb designed by the invention is 0.01-0.08%.

Mo: mo is an alloying element of steel, and can improve the strength, particularly the high-temperature strength and toughness of the steel, and Mo can improve the hardenability, weldability and heat resistance of the steel. Mo is also a good carbide-forming element, is not oxidized in the steel-making process, and can be used alone or together with other alloy elements. In the strip continuous casting process, Mo mainly exists in a steel strip in a solid solution state and can play a role in solid solution strengthening; mo dissolved in steel can drag austenite crystal boundary through solute atoms, and is favorable for martensite phase transformation after hot rolling. The content range of Mo adopted by the invention is 0.1-0.4%.

Cu: the Cu is an easily segregated element, so that the Cu content is generally controlled strictly in the traditional process flow. The invention improves the upper limit of Cu to 0.60% by applying the rapid solidification effect of thin strip continuous casting. The improvement of the Cu content can realize the effective utilization of copper in scrap steel or inferior ore resources (high copper ores) in a certain sense, promote the recycling of steel, reduce the production cost and realize the purpose of sustainable development.

Sn: the Sn element is also one of main participating elements in scrap steel, and is generally recognized as a harmful element in steel, because Sn is an easily segregated element, a small amount of Sn can be enriched in grain boundaries, and defects such as cracks can be caused, so that the content of the Sn element is strictly controlled in the conventional process. Due to the characteristic of rapid solidification, segregation of elements among dendrites is greatly reduced, and the solid solution amount of the elements can be greatly improved, so that the range of Sn elements can be expanded under the condition of a strip continuous casting process, and the steelmaking cost can be greatly reduced. Fig. 2 is a relationship between Sn element and average heat flux density. As can be seen from fig. 2, when the Sn addition is less than 0.04%, the influence on the heat flux density is not great, i.e., the ribbon solidification process is not affected. FIG. 3 is a relationship between Sn content and surface roughness. Since cracks on the surface of the cast strip usually occur at the uneven folds of the surface of the cast strip, the surface roughness is used to characterize the occurrence of surface cracks. If the roughness is large, the probability of occurrence of cracks is high. As is clear from FIG. 3, the increase in Sn content does not adversely affect the surface quality of the cast strip under the rapid solidification conditions. From the results of fig. 2 and 3, it is clear that Sn does not adversely affect the solidification and surface quality of the cast strip. Therefore, in the present invention, the requirement for Sn content can be further relaxed, and the Sn content is designed to be in the range of 0.005-0.04%.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a thin martensitic steel strip, which comprises the following steps:

1) smelting and continuous casting

Smelting according to the components, wherein the basicity a of slagging in the steelmaking process is CaO/SiO₂Control in a<1.5, preferably a<1.2, or a ═ 0.7-1.0; continuous casting molten steel containing MnO-SiO₂-Al₂O₃Ternary inclusions, MnO-SiO₂-Al₂O₃MnO/SiO in ternary inclusions₂Controlling the concentration to be 0.5-2, preferably 1-1.8; free oxygen [ O ] in molten steel]_FreeComprises the following steps: 0.0005-0.005%;

the continuous casting adopts double-roller thin strip continuous casting to form a casting strip with the thickness of 1.5-3 mm; the diameter of the crystallization roller is 500-1500mm, preferably phi 800 mm; cooling the crystallization roller by introducing water, wherein the casting speed of the casting machine is 60-150 m/min; the continuous casting flow distribution adopts a two-stage steel water distribution system, namely a tundish and a flow distributor;

2) after the lower closed chamber protects the casting belt to be taken out of the crystallization roller, the casting belt temperature is 1420-;

3) the on-line hot rolling cast strip is sent to a rolling mill by a pinch roll in a lower closed chamber to be rolled into a steel strip with the thickness of 0.8-2.5mm, the rolling temperature is 1100-1250 ℃, the hot rolling reduction rate is 10-50%, preferably, the hot rolling reduction rate is 30-50%; the thickness of the hot rolled steel strip is 0.8-2.5mm, preferably 1.0-1.8 mm;

4) cooling after rolling the on-line hot rolled strip steel, cooling the strip steel to below 300 ℃ by adopting an air atomization rapid quenching mode, wherein the cooling rate of the air atomization rapid cooling is more than 120 ℃/s, rapidly cooling the strip steel to below 300 ℃, and the microstructure of the cooled strip steel is martensite (M) or martensite (M) + bainite (B);

5) and (3) cutting the head of the cooled hot rolled strip steel coiled by the steel strip to remove the head with poor quality, and directly coiling the hot rolled strip steel.

Further comprising step 6) subsequent heat treatment, wherein the produced steel coil is subjected to isothermal tempering treatment at 200-350 ℃ for 1-4 h; or entering a continuous annealing production line for aging treatment, wherein the continuous annealing aging temperature is 300-650 ℃, and the continuous annealing aging time is 2-12 min.

Preferably, in the step 1), 100% of all-waste steel can be selected as smelting raw materials, pre-screening is not needed, and electric furnace steelmaking is adopted for molten steel smelting; or, the smelting adopts a converter for steel making, the scrap steel is added into the converter according to the proportion of more than 20 percent of the smelting raw materials, and pre-screening is not needed; then refining in an LF furnace, a VD/VOD furnace or an RH furnace.

Preferably, in step 2), the non-oxidizing gas comprises an inert gas, N₂Or CO obtained by sublimation on dry ice₂Gas, N₂And H₂The mixed gas of (1).

Preferably, in the step 4), the gas-water ratio of the gas atomization cooling is 15: 1-10: 1, the air pressure is 0.5-0.8 MPa, and the water pressure is 1.0-1.5 MPa.

Preferably, in step 5), the coiling is performed in a double coiler mode or a carrousel coiling mode.

In the method for manufacturing a martensitic steel strip according to the present invention:

in order to improve the castability of thin-strip continuous casting molten steel, the basicity a of slagging in the steel-making process is CaO/SiO₂Control in a<1.5, preferably a<1.2, or a ═ 0.7 to 1.0.

For improving thin ribbon connectionCastability of the cast molten steel, it is desirable to obtain a low melting point MnO-SiO₂-Al₂O₃Ternary inclusions, e.g. shaded areas of FIG. 4, MnO-SiO₂-Al₂O₃MnO/SiO in ternary inclusions₂The concentration is controlled to be 0.5 to 2, preferably 1 to 1.8.

In order to improve the castability of thin strip continuous casting molten steel in which O is an essential element for forming oxide inclusions, the present invention requires formation of MnO-SiO with a low melting point₂-Al₂O₃The ternary inclusions of (2) require free oxygen [ O ] in molten steel]_FreeThe range is as follows: 0.0005-0.005%.

In order to improve the castability of the thin strip continuous casting molten steel, the Mn and S of the above components should satisfy the following relation: Mn/S > 250.

The temperature of the casting strip after the casting strip is taken out of the crystallization roller is 1420-1480 ℃, the casting strip directly enters a lower closed chamber, non-oxidizing gas is introduced into the lower closed chamber, the oxygen concentration in the lower closed chamber is controlled to be less than 5 percent, the lower closed chamber protects the anti-oxidation of the casting strip to the inlet of a rolling mill, and the temperature of the casting strip at the outlet of the lower closed chamber is 1150-1300 ℃.

The steel strip after on-line hot rolling is cooled after rolling, the cooling adopts an air atomization rapid quenching mode to cool the steel strip to below 300 ℃, and the air atomization cooling mode can effectively reduce the thickness of oxide scale on the surface of the steel strip, improve the temperature uniformity of the steel strip and improve the surface quality of the steel strip. The gas-water ratio of gas atomization cooling is 15: 1-10: 1, the air pressure is 0.5-0.8 MPa, and the water pressure is 1.0-1.5 MPa. High-pressure water mist is formed after gas atomization and sprayed on the surface of a steel strip, so that on one hand, the temperature of the steel strip is reduced, on the other hand, the water mist can form a compact air film to coat on the surface of the steel strip, the anti-oxidation effect of the steel strip is achieved, and the growth of oxide skin on the surface of the hot-rolled steel strip is effectively controlled. The cooling mode can avoid the problems caused by the traditional spraying or laminar cooling, so that the surface temperature of the strip steel is uniformly reduced, the temperature uniformity of the strip steel is improved, and the effect of homogenizing the internal microstructure is achieved; meanwhile, the cooling is uniform, so that the shape quality and the performance stability of the strip steel can be improved; effectively reducing the thickness of the oxide scale on the surface of the strip steel. The cooling rate range of the gas atomization rapid cooling is more than 120 ℃/s, the strip steel is rapidly cooled to be below 300 ℃, and the microstructure of the cooled strip steel is martensite (M) or martensite (M) + bainite (B).

Through the manufacturing process, the final martensitic steel strip has the performance yield strength of 800-1200MPa, the tensile strength of 1100-1900MPa and the elongation of 3-12%.

The invention is distinguished and improved from the prior art:

the most obvious characteristic of the invention which is different from the prior thin strip continuous casting technology is the roller diameter of the crystallization roller and the corresponding distribution mode. The EUROSTRIP technology is characterized in that the crystallization roller with a large roller diameter of 1500mm phi is large, the molten steel capacity of a molten pool is large, the distribution is easy, and the manufacturing cost and the operation cost of the crystallization roller are high. The CASTIP technology is characterized in that a crystallization roller with a small roller diameter of 500mm phi is small, the molten steel capacity of a molten pool is small, the distribution is very difficult, but the manufacturing, operation and maintenance costs of casting machine equipment are low. CASTRIP adopts a three-stage molten steel distribution system (tundish, transition ladle and distributor) to solve the problem of uniform distribution of small molten pools. Because a three-level flow distribution system is adopted, the cost of the refractory material is directly increased; more importantly, the three-stage flow distribution system enables the flowing path of the molten steel to be lengthened, the temperature drop of the molten steel is large, and in order to meet the temperature of molten steel in a molten pool, the tapping temperature needs to be greatly increased. The increase of the tapping temperature causes problems such as increase of steel-making cost, increase of energy consumption, and shortening of the life of refractory.

The diameter of the crystallization roller is 500-1500mm, preferably the diameter of the crystallization roller is 800mm, and a two-stage steel water distribution system (a tundish and a flow distributor) is adopted. Molten steel flowing out of the flow distributor forms different flow distribution modes along the roller surface and the two end surfaces, and flows in two paths without mutual interference. Because a two-stage flow distribution system is adopted, compared with a three-stage flow distribution system, the cost of the refractory material is greatly reduced; the reduction of the flow path of the molten steel reduces the temperature drop of the molten steel, and can reduce the tapping temperature by 30-50 ℃ compared with a three-level flow distribution system. The reduction of the tapping temperature can effectively reduce the steel-making cost, save the energy consumption and prolong the service life of refractory materials. The invention is matched with the crystallization roller with the optimal roller diameter of phi 800mm, and adopts a two-stage steel water distribution system, thereby not only realizing the requirement of stable distribution of molten steel, but also realizing the aims of simple structure, convenient operation and low processing cost.

There are many patents on the prior thin strip continuous casting for producing thin strip products and processes, but the production of martensite steel containing B by adopting the thin strip continuous casting is not directly reported, but the following patents and the patents are considered to have certain comparability in process control and equipment, and are detailed as follows:

international patent WO2016100839 discloses a martensitic steel and a method for its manufacture. The patent adopts the following chemical components in percentage by weight: 0.20 to 0.35 percent of C, less than 1.0 percent of Cr, 0.7 to 2.0 percent of Mn, 0.10 to 0.50 percent of Si, 0.1 to 1.0 percent of Cu, 0.05 percent of Nb, 0.5 percent of Mo, 0.01 percent of Al, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities caused by smelting. Cu is mentioned in the patent composition, but Sn is not mentioned. The patent claims molten steel is solidified under a heat flow higher than 10.0MW/m2 to form a steel strip with a thickness of <2.0mm, and the hot rolling reduction rate is 15-50% on-line, and the steel strip is rapidly cooled after rolling to make the steel strip have a martensite or martensite + bainite microstructure with a volume fraction of at least 75%. Only post-rolling rapid cooling is mentioned here, and the way in which rapid cooling is achieved is not mentioned.

Chinese patent CN108359909 discloses a method for preparing high strength and toughness martensitic steel by thin strip casting and aging process. The patent adopts the following chemical components in percentage by weight: 0.1 to 0.3 percent of C, 0.7 to 2.5 percent of Mn, 0.05 to 0.8 percent of Si, 0.05 to 0.8 percent of Mo, 0.01 to 0.3 percent of V, 0.01 to 0.09 percent of Nb, 0.1 to 0.8 percent of Cr, 0.02 percent of P, less than or equal to 0.02 percent of S, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The patent composition does not contain elements such as Cu and Sn. An important feature of the patent is that the strip must be subjected to an ageing treatment to improve the properties of the steel.

International patents WO 2008137898, WO 2008137899, WO 2008137900, and chinese patents CN200880023157.9, CN200880023167.2, CN200880023586.6 disclose methods for producing microalloyed steel strip with thickness of 0.3-3mm by using strip continuous casting and rolling process. The method adopts the following chemical components: less than or equal to 0.25 percent, Mn: 0.20 to 2.0%, Si: 0.05-0.50%, Al: 0.01% or less, and further comprises Nb: 0.01-0.20%, V: 0.01E0.20%, Mo: 0.05 to 0.50% of at least one. Under the technological conditions that the hot rolling reduction is 20-40% and the coiling temperature is less than or equal to 700 ℃, the microstructure of the hot rolled strip is bainite and acicular ferrite. The patent states that the alloying elements mainly present in the solid-solution state in the cast strip inhibit the recrystallization of austenite after hot rolling, and that the recrystallization of austenite is very limited even if the reduction rate reaches 40%. Since austenite is not recrystallized at the hot rolling reduction of 20 to 40%, hardenability of coarse austenite is maintained after hot rolling, and a room temperature structure of bainite + acicular ferrite is obtained. The temperature ranges used for hot rolling are not given in the patents, but are in articles related to these patents (C.R. Killmore, etc. development of Ultra-Thin case Strip Products by the

Ais Tech, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, May 7-10,2007), the hot rolling temperature employed was reported to be 950 ℃. The yield strength of the thin-strip continuous casting low-carbon microalloyed steel product produced by the method can reach 650MPa, the tensile strength can reach 750MPa, and the elongation is less than or equal to 6% or less than or equal to 10% in the range of the component system. After the strip casting process, the hot rolling reduction rate of the strip casting process is generally only matched with a 1-2 stand rolling mill, the hot rolling reduction rate is usually difficult to exceed 50%, the effect of refining grains through deformation is very small, if austenite grains are not refined through recrystallization, the nonuniform austenite structure is difficult to effectively improve after hot rolling, and the bainite + acicular ferrite structure generated after transformation of the austenite with nonuniform size is also nonuniform, so the elongation rate is not high.

Chinese patent 02825466.X proposes another method for producing a microalloyed steel thin strip with the thickness of 1-6mm by utilizing a thin strip continuous casting and rolling process. The microalloyed steel component system adopted by the method is C: 0.02 to 0.20%, Mn: 0.1 to 1.6%, Si: 0.02-2.0%, Al is less than or equal to 0.05%, S: not more than 0.03%, P not more than 0.1%, Cr: 0.01 to 1.5%, Ni: 0.01-0.5%, Mo is less than or equal to 0.5%, N: 0.003-0.012%, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The hot rolling of the cast strip is carried out at 1150- (Ar1-100) DEG C, and the hot rolling is carried out in the austenite region, austenite ferrite two-phase region, or ferrite region, with a hot rolling reduction of 15-80%. According to the method, an online heating system is designed behind a thin strip continuous casting and rolling unit, the heating temperature range is 670-. When the method is used for production, an online heating system is required to be added during production line design, and the heating uniformity can be ensured only if the heating furnace has enough length due to the length of heating time and the dependence on the belt speed and the length of the heating furnace. This not only increases the investment cost, but also significantly increases the floor area of the strip continuous casting and rolling production line, reducing the advantages of the production line.

The invention has the main advantages that:

1. the invention utilizes the strip casting technology to produce the martensitic steel containing tin (Sn), copper (Cu)/tin (Sn) and copper (Cu), and has not been reported so far.

2. The invention omits the complex processes of slab heating, multi-pass repeated hot rolling and the like, and has the advantages of shorter production flow, higher efficiency and greatly reduced production line investment cost and production cost by adopting the working procedures of double-roller thin-strip continuous casting and one-pass online hot rolling.

3. The invention omits a plurality of complex intermediate steps in the traditional martensite steel strip production, and compared with the traditional cold-rolled martensite steel strip, the energy consumption and CO2 emission in the production are greatly reduced, thus the invention is a green and environment-friendly product.

4. The invention adopts the strip continuous casting process to produce the hot-rolled thin martensitic steel, the thickness of the cast strip is thinner, the thin product is directly supplied to the market for use without cold rolling through online hot rolling to the desired product thickness, the purpose of supplying the thin hot rolled plate and the purpose of cooling with hot strips are achieved, and the cost performance of the plate and strip can be obviously improved.

5. The invention utilizes the scrap steel containing Cu and Sn to turn the Cu and Sn in the steel into harmful and beneficial, realizes the full utilization of the existing scrap steel or low-quality inferior ore resources (high-tin ore and high-copper ore), promotes the recycling of the scrap steel, reduces the production cost and realizes the sustainable development of the steel industry.

6. The smelting adopts the electric furnace for steelmaking, the smelting raw materials can realize 100 percent of all scrap steel smelting in the true sense, pre-screening is not needed, and the raw material cost is greatly reduced; if the converter is used for smelting steel, the scrap steel is added into the converter according to the proportion of more than 20 percent of smelting raw materials, and pre-screening is not needed, so that the scrap steel ratio of the converter is improved to the maximum extent, and the smelting cost and the energy consumption are greatly reduced.

7. The invention adopts the gas atomization rapid quenching mode of the rolled strip steel, can avoid the problems brought by the traditional spraying or laminar cooling, uniformly reduces the surface temperature of the strip steel, improves the temperature uniformity of the strip steel, and achieves the effect of homogenizing the internal microstructure; meanwhile, the cooling is uniform, so that the shape quality and the performance stability of the strip steel can be improved; effectively reducing the thickness of the oxide scale on the surface of the strip steel.

8. In the traditional process, alloy elements are separated out in the cooling process of the plate blank, and the utilization rate of the alloy elements is reduced because the re-dissolution of the alloy elements is insufficient when the plate blank is reheated. In the thin strip continuous casting process, the high-temperature cast strip is directly hot-rolled, and the added alloy elements mainly exist in a solid solution state, so that the alloy utilization rate can be improved.

9. According to the invention, the hot rolled steel strip carrousel coiling machine is selected, so that the length of a production line is effectively shortened; meanwhile, the control precision of the coiling temperature can be greatly improved by the co-position coiling, and the stability of the product performance is improved.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a process arrangement for a twin roll strip casting process;

FIG. 2 is a graph showing the relationship between Sn content and average heat flux density;

FIG. 3 is a schematic representation of the relationship between Sn content and surface roughness of a cast strip;

FIG. 4 shows MnO-SiO₂-Al₂O₃Ternary phase diagram (shaded area: low melting point region).

Detailed Description

The invention is further illustrated by the following examples, which are not intended to limit the invention in any way. Any variations in the practice of the invention which may occur to those skilled in the art and which fall within the scope of the appended claims will be deemed to fall within the scope of the invention.

Referring to fig. 1, molten steel designed according to the chemical composition of the present invention is directly poured into a molten pool 7 surrounded by two

crystallization rollers

8a, 8b which rotate relatively and can be cooled rapidly and a side closing plate device 6a, 6b through a large ladle 1, a tundish 3, a submerged nozzle 4 and a flow distributor 5, the molten steel is solidified on the circumferential surfaces of the rotation of the

crystallization rollers

8a, 8b, so as to form a solidified shell and grow gradually, then a casting strip 11 with the thickness of 1.5-3mm is formed at the minimum clearance (nip point) of the two crystallization rollers, the temperature of the casting strip 11 after exiting the

crystallization rollers

8a, 8b is 1420 plus 1480 ℃, the casting strip directly enters a lower closed chamber 10, the lower closed chamber 10 is protected by inert gas, so as to realize the anti-oxidation protection of the strip, the atmosphere of the anti-oxidation protection can be N2, can also be Ar, and can also be other non-oxidizing gas, such as CO2 gas from sublimation of dry ice, the oxygen concentration in the lower enclosed chamber 10 is controlled to < 5%. The lower closed chamber 10 protects the cast strip 11 from oxidation to the inlet of a rolling mill 13; the temperature of the cast strip at the outlet of the lower closed chamber 10 is 1150-1300 ℃. Then the cast strip is sent to a hot rolling mill 13 through a swinging guide plate 9 and a pinch roll 12, a hot rolled strip with the thickness of 0.8-2.5mm is formed after hot rolling, and the strip steel is cooled to below 300 ℃ by adopting an air atomization rapid quenching mode after rolling, so that the temperature uniformity of the strip steel is improved; after the head of the steel coil is cut by the flying shear device 16, the cut head falls into a flying shear pit 18 along a flying shear guide plate 17, the hot rolled strip after the head is cut enters a coiling machine 19 for coiling, and the steel coil is naturally cooled to room temperature after being taken down from the coiling machine.

In addition, the produced steel coil can be subjected to isothermal tempering treatment or enter a continuous annealing production line for aging treatment.

The chemical compositions of the examples of the invention are shown in table 1, and the balance of the compositions is Fe and other unavoidable impurities. The hot rolled strip produced by the method of the invention has the process parameters shown in Table 2 and the properties shown in Table 3.

In conclusion, the thin-gauge martensitic steel manufactured by the thin-strip continuous casting process technology within the design range of steel components provided by the invention has yield strength of 800-.

Claims

1. A thin-gauge martensitic steel strip comprises the following components in percentage by weight: c: 0.16-0.26%, Si: 0.1-0.5%, Mn: 0.4-1.7%, P is less than or equal to 0.02%, S is less than or equal to 0.007%, N: 0.004-0.010%, Als:<0.001% of total oxygen [ O ]]_T: 0.007-0.020%; the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities, and simultaneously satisfies:

contains Cu: 0.1-0.6% or Sn: 0.005-0.04% of one or two;

contains Nb: 0.01-0.08%, Mo: 0.1-0.4% of one or two;

Mn/S>250；

the manufacturing method of the thin-gauge martensitic steel strip specifically comprises the following steps:

1) smelting and continuous casting

Smelting according to the components, wherein the basicity a of slagging in the steelmaking process is CaO/SiO₂Is controlled at a<1.5; continuous casting molten steel containing MnO-SiO₂-Al₂O₃Ternary inclusions, MnO-SiO₂-Al₂O₃MnO/SiO in ternary inclusions₂Controlling the temperature to be 0.5-2; free oxygen [ O ] in molten steel]_FreeComprises the following steps: 0.0005-0.005%;

the continuous casting adopts double-roller thin strip continuous casting to form a casting strip with the thickness of 1.5-3 mm; the diameter of the crystallization roller is 500-1500 mm; cooling the crystallization roller by introducing water, wherein the casting speed of the casting machine is 60-150 m/min; the continuous casting flow distribution adopts a two-stage steel water distribution system, namely a tundish and a flow distributor;

2) lower enclosed chamber protection

After the casting strip is taken out of the crystallization roller, the temperature of the casting strip is 1420-1480 ℃, the casting strip directly enters a lower closed chamber, non-oxidizing gas is introduced into the lower closed chamber, the oxygen concentration in the lower closed chamber is controlled to be less than 5%, and the temperature of the casting strip at the outlet of the lower closed chamber is 1150-1300 ℃;

3) in-line hot rolling

The cast strip is sent to a rolling mill in a lower closed chamber through a pinch roll and rolled into a steel strip with the thickness of 0.8-2.5mm, the rolling temperature is 1100-1250 ℃, and the hot rolling reduction rate is 10-50%; the thickness of the hot rolled steel strip is 0.8-2.5 mm;

4) cooling after rolling

Cooling the strip steel after the online hot rolling, wherein the strip steel is cooled to below 300 ℃ by adopting an air atomization rapid quenching mode, the cooling rate of the air atomization rapid cooling is more than 120 ℃/s, the steel strip is rapidly cooled to below 300 ℃, and the microstructure of the cooled steel strip is martensite or martensite and bainite;

5) steel strip coiling

And directly coiling the cooled hot-rolled strip steel into coils after cutting off the head with poor quality.

2. The thin gauge martensitic steel strip as claimed in claim 1 wherein the martensitic steel strip has a yield strength of 800-1200MPa, a tensile strength of 1100-1900MPa and an elongation of 3-12%.

3. A method for manufacturing a thin martensitic steel strip, comprising the steps of:

1) smelting and continuous casting

According to the formula C: 0.16-0.26%, Si: 0.1-0.5%, Mn: 0.4-1.7%, P is less than or equal to 0.02%, S is less than or equal to 0.007%, N: 0.004-0.010%, Als: < 0.001%, total oxygen [ O ] T: 0.007-0.020%; the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities, and simultaneously satisfies:

contains Cu: 0.1-0.6% or Sn: 0.005-0.04% of one or two;

contains Nb: 0.01-0.08%, Mo: 0.1-0.4% of one or two;

Mn/S>250 component smelting, the basicity a of slagging in the steel-making process is CaO/SiO₂Control in a<1.5; continuous casting molten steel containing MnO-SiO₂-Al₂O₃Ternary inclusions, MnO-SiO₂-Al₂O₃MnO/SiO in ternary inclusions₂Controlling the temperature to be 0.5-2 ℃; free oxygen [ O ] in molten steel]_FreeComprises the following steps: 0.0005-0.005%;

2) lower sealed chamber protection

3) in-line hot rolling

4) cooling after rolling

5) steel strip coiling

4. The method for manufacturing the thin martensitic steel strip as claimed in claim 3, wherein the method further comprises the step 6) of performing subsequent heat treatment to obtain a steel coil, and performing isothermal tempering treatment at 200-350 ℃ for 1-4 h; or entering a continuous annealing production line for aging treatment, wherein the continuous annealing aging temperature is 300-650 ℃, and the continuous annealing aging time is 2-12 min.

5. The method for manufacturing the thin martensitic steel strip as claimed in claim 3, wherein in the step 1), 100% of all scrap steel is selected as the smelting raw material, pre-screening is not required, and electric furnace steelmaking is adopted for molten steel smelting; or, the smelting adopts a converter for steel making, the scrap steel is added into the converter according to the proportion of more than 20 percent of the smelting raw materials, and pre-screening is not needed; then refining in an LF furnace, a VD/VOD furnace or an RH furnace.

6. The method of manufacturing a thin gauge martensitic steel strip as claimed in claim 3 wherein in step 2) said non-oxidizing gas comprises an inert gas, N₂Ar, or CO obtained by sublimation on dry ice₂Gas, N₂And H₂The mixed gas of (1).

7. The method for manufacturing a thin gauge martensitic steel strip as claimed in claim 3 wherein in step 4), the gas-water ratio of the gas-atomized cooling is 15: 1-10: 1, the air pressure is 0.5-0.8 MPa, and the water pressure is 1.0-1.5 MPa.

8. The method of manufacturing a thin gauge martensitic steel strip as claimed in claim 3 wherein in step 5) the coiling is in the form of a twin coiler or a carrousel coiler.

9. The method of making a thin gauge martensitic steel strip as claimed in claim 3 wherein in step 1) said MnO-SiO is₂-Al₂O₃MnO/SiO in ternary inclusions₂The temperature is controlled to be 1-1.8.

10. The method of manufacturing a thin gauge martensitic steel strip as claimed in claim 3 or 9 wherein in step 1) the crystallising rollers have a diameter of Φ 800 mm.

11. The method of manufacturing a thin gauge martensitic steel strip as claimed in claim 3 wherein in step 3) said hot rolling reduction is in the range of 30 to 50%.

12. The method of manufacturing a thin gauge martensitic steel strip as claimed in claim 3 or 11 wherein in step 3) the thickness of the hot rolled steel strip is between 1.0 and 1.8 mm.

13. The method of claim 3, wherein in step 1), the slag formation basicity a ═ CaO/SiO in the steel making process is determined by the method of making the thin gauge martensitic steel strip₂Control in a<1.2。

14. The method of claim 3, wherein in step 1), the slag formation basicity a ═ CaO/SiO in the steel making process is determined by the method of making the thin gauge martensitic steel strip₂And controlling a to be 0.7-1.0.