1.School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China 2.School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China 3.China Automotive Engineering Research Institute Co. , Ltd. , Chongqing 401122, China 4.Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Cite this article:
JIN Xuejun,GONG Yu,HAN Xianhong,DU Hao,DING Wei,ZHU Bin,ZHANG Yisheng,FENG Yi,MA Mingtu,LIANG Bin,ZHAO Yan,LI Yong,ZHENG Jinghua,SHI Zhusheng. A Review of Current State and Prospect of the Manufacturing and Application of Advanced Hot Stamping Automobile Steels. Acta Metall Sin, 2020, 56(4): 411-428.
Ultrahigh strength steels are highly competitive materials for vehicles to concurrently meet the increasing demand of the weight reduction and passenger safety. Hot stamping is the key forming technology to manufacture automobile components with high strength. Hot stamping steel and its manufacturing technology experienced a fast development in the past decade. This paper reviewed the state of the art of the manufacturing and applications of hot stamping steels/components in the following aspects: (1) hot stamping steels (from traditional MnB steels to recently newly developed hot stamping steels); (2) forming technologies (from traditional hot stamping process to industry 4.0 intelligent production); (3) novel hot stamping + quenching & partitioning (Q&P) process and fundamentals of deformation assisted heat treatments; (4) simulation techniques for hot stamping process (modeling of the temperature-stress field, microstructure field and simulation of the manufacturing process); (5) the assessments of in-service performance of hot stamped components. Finally, the trends of the development of hot stamping steels and related forming technologies in the future will be discussed.
Fund: National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1564203);National Natural Science Foundation of China(51901128);National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFB0304401);Funds for International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51911530204);The Royal Society International Exchanges Cost Share 2018 China (No.IEC\NSFC\181414), Outstanding Academic Leaders Program of Shanghai(18XD1402200);Startup Fund for Youngman Research at SJTU
Table 1 Compositions of 22MnB5 steels produced by different steel companies in the world[4,5,6,7,8]
Steel
Composition (mass fraction / %)
YS
MPa
UTS
MPa
C
Si
Mn
Cr
Ti
B
N
Ni
Al
Fe
27MnCrB5
0.25
0.21
1.24
0.34
0.042
0.002
0.004
0.01
0.03
Bal.
1097
1611
28MnB5
0.28
0.40
1.30
-
-
0.005
-
-
-
Bal.
1135
1740
34MnB5
0.34
0.40
1.30
-
-
0.005
-
-
-
Bal.
1225
1919
37MnB4
0.37
0.31
0.81
0.19
0.046
0.001
0.006
0.02
0.03
Bal.
1378
2040
Table 2 Compositions and mechanical properties after quenching of hot stamping steels with two strength grades of 1800 MPa and 2000 MPa[9,10]
Commercial name
Steelmaker
C
Si
Mn
P
S
Al
Nb
Fe
Ductibor 500
ArcelorMittal
0.05~0.08
<0.5
<1.4
<0.03
<0.01
0.02~0.04
0.03~0.07
Bal.
MBW 500
ThyssenKrupp
<0.10
<0.35
<1.0
<0.03
<0.025
>0.015
<0.1
Bal.
PHS-Ultraform 490
Voestalpine
<0.11
<0.5
<1.4
<0.03
<0.025
<0.015
<0.1
Bal.
Table 3 Grades and compositions of low strength high ductility and toughness steels with strength of 500 MPa[9]
Fig.1 Schematics of hot stamping, quenching and partitioning (HS-Q&P) process and microstructural evolution (Ac3—temperature of all ferrite transform into austenite, Ms—onset of temperature of martensitic transformation, γ—austenite, —martensite, —second martensite, f—volume fraction of each phase, C—carbon content of each phase)Color online
Fig.2 Schematics of deformation induced ferrite transformation-Q&P (DIFT-Q&P) process and microstructural evolution (Ae3—equilibrium critical temperature of full austenitization,αD—deformation-induced martensite, ΔT—the difference of temperature of all ferrite transform into austenite and paraequilibrium temperature)Color online
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