Abstract: High tensile strength steel sheets having high press formability and excellent shape-fixability in which an average roughness in surface Ha is 0.4-1.8 .mu.m, PPI value is more than 80 at a cut off level of 0.5 .mu.m, the proportional limit stress is less than 20 kg/mm.sup.2 and the microstructure consists of ferrite grains dispersed with fine martensite islands, are produced by cold rolling a hot rolled steel sheet containing 0.005-0.15% of carbon, and manganese, if necessary boron, molybdenum, chromium, silicon, nickel and copper within a range of 0.27-3% of Mneq. shown by the following formula (1)Mneq.=Mn+124B+3Mo+3/2Cr+1/3Si+1/3Ni+1/2Cu (1)so as to obtain the cold rolled steel sheet having the above described surface property and then heating the cold rolled steel sheet to an intercritical temperature between A.sub.1 and A.sub.3, after which cooling the heated steel sheet at a particularly defined cooling rate.

Abstract: A weldable steel excellent in the toughness of the bond in a single layer welding with a large heat-input more than 60,000 J/cm, which contains 0.03 to 0.22% of carbon, 0.02 to 0.80% of silicon and 0.40 to 2.00% of manganese in coexistance of 0.005 to 0.1% of rare earth metal and 0.0005 to 0.01% of boron, the remainder being substantially iron. Said weldable steel can be further improved by containing at least one of not more than 0.1% of niobium, not more than 0.1% of vanadium, not more than 0.5% of copper, not more than 1.0% of nickel, not more than 0.8% of chromium, not more than 0.5% of molybdenum, not more than 0.1% of selenium, not more than 0.1% of aluminum, not more than 0.1% of titanium and not more than 0.1% of zirconium.