Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high strength steel sheet includes subjecting a steel having a chemical composition including C: 0.08% to 0.20%, Si: 0.3% or less, Mn: 0.1% to 3.0%, P: 0.10% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.010% or less, V: 0.20% to 0.80%, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis to a hot rolling process composed of heating, rough rolling, finish rolling, cooling, and coiling into the shape of a coil at a predetermined coiling temperature, wherein the heating is performed at a temperature of 1,100° C. or higher for 10 min or more, the rough rolling is performed at a finish rough rolling temperature of 1,000° C. or higher, the finish rolling is performed at a finishing temperature of 850° C. or higher, in which a reduction ratio in a temperature range of 1,000° C. or lower is 96% or less, a reduction ratio in a temperature range of 950° C.

Abstract: The high strength steel sheet has a chemical composition including 0.08% to 0.20% of C, 0.3% or less of Si, 0.1% to 3.0% of Mn, 0.10% or less of P, 0.030% or less of S, 0.10% or less of Al, 0.010% or less of N, 0.20% to 0.80% of V, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis, and a microstructure which includes 95% or more of ferrite phase on an area percentage basis, in which fine precipitates are dispersed having a distribution in such a way that the number density of precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.0×105/?m3 or more and the standard deviation of natural logarithm values of precipitate particle sizes with respect to precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.5 or less.

Abstract: A semi-manufactured steel material has a chemical composition including, by mass %, C: 0.055% to 0.15%, Si: not more than 0.2%, Mn: not more than 1.3%, P: not more than 0.03%, S: not more than 0.007%, Al: not more than 0.1%, N: not more than 0.01%, and Ti: 0.14% to 0.30%, the balance comprising Fe and inevitable impurities. In the composition, 1.0?([C]/12)/([Ti*]/48) is satisfied ([C], [S], [N] and [Ti]: contents (mass %) of the respective elements, and [Ti*]=[Ti]?3.4×[N]?1.5×[S]), and the contents of niobium and boron as impurities are limited to Nb: less than 0.03% and B: less than 0.0005%.

Abstract: The high strength steel sheet has a chemical composition including 0.08% to 0.20% of C, 0.3% or less of Si, 0.1% to 3.0% of Mn, 0.10% or less of P, 0.030% or less of S, 0.10% or less of Al, 0.010% or less of N, 0.20% to 0.80% of V, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis, and a microstructure which includes 95% or more of ferrite phase on an area percentage basis, in which fine precipitates are dispersed having a distribution in such a way that the number density of precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.0×105/?m3 or more and the standard deviation of natural logarithm values of precipitate particle sizes with respect to precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.5 or less.

Abstract: A semi-manufactured steel material has a chemical composition including, by mass %, C: 0.055% to 0.15%, Si: not more than 0.2%, Mn: not more than 1.3%, P: not more than 0.03%, S: not more than 0.007%, Al: not more than 0.1%, N: not more than 0.01%, and Ti: 0.14% to 0.30%, the balance comprising Fe and inevitable impurities. In the composition, 1.0 ([C]/12)/([Ti*]/48) is satisfied ([C], [S], [N] and [Ti]: contents (mass %) of the respective elements, and [Ti*]=[Ti]?3.4×[N]?1.5×[S]), and the contents of niobium and boron as impurities are limited to Nb: less than 0.03% and B: less than 0.0005%.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet having both excellent strength and excellent workability (particularly, bending workability), and a method of producing the same. The steel sheet of the present invention has a certain composition as well as microstructures such that an area ratio of ferrite phase is 95% or more, an average grain size of the ferrite phase is 8 ?m or less, and carbides in grains of the ferrite phase have an average particle size of less than 10 nm. The steel sheet of the present invention also has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.

Abstract: Provided is a high-strength steel sheet having good warm press formability and excellent strength and ductility after warm press forming, and a method for manufacturing such. The high-strength steel sheet has a tensile strength at room temperature not less than 780 MPa, a yield stress at a heating temperature range of 400° C. to 700° C. not more than 80% of the yield stress at room temperature, total elongation at the heating temperature range not less than 1.1 times the total elongation at room temperature, yield stress and total elongation after the steel sheet is heated to the heating temperature range, subjected to a strain of not more than 20%, and cooled from the heating temperature to room temperature, not less than 70% of the yield stress and total elongation, respectively, at room temperature before the heating.

Abstract: A structural Fe—Cr steel sheet and a manufacturing method thereof are provided, the steel sheet having an as-hot rolled tensile strength of about 400 to about 450 MPa and generating no embrittlement in welded portions even when rapid heating and cooling is performed by electric resistance welding. In addition, structural shaped steel is also provided which is formed from the steel sheet described above by using electric resistance welding.