“…For the past few years, research on rare earth (RE) microalloyed steel has attracted much attention [14,15,16]. First of all, the doping of RE elements can improve the comprehensive mechanical properties of microalloyed steels due to their effects on the purification of steel liquid, improvement of phase transformation, and modification of second phases, which has been investigated extensively [16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26]. Secondly, the addition of RE elements has an effect on corrosion properties of microalloyed steels by promoting the formation of passive corrosion product films [22,27,28,29], and modifying inclusions [25,30].…”