摘要:
The present invention provides a steel wire rod for cold forging which can be spheroidizing-annealed in an as hot-rolled state without requiring preliminary drawing and can have high ductility after the spheroidizing annealing, and a method to produce the same: and is characterized in that; the steel contains, by weight, 0.1 to 0.5% of C, 0.01 to 0.5% of Si and 0.3 to 1.5% of Mn, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and further contains hardening elements as required; and the steel has a prior austenite grain size number, defined under Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) G 0551, of 11 or higher, the amount of diffusible hydrogen in the steel measured by the programmed temperature gas chromatography being 0.2 ppm or less, and the hardness being Hv 250 to 700. The production method is characterized by: hot rolling the steel at a low temperature; rapidly cooling and tempering the wire rod thus rolled by holding it in a furnace atmosphere controlled in the temperature range of 300 to 600° C. for 15 min. or longer but shorter than 1 h.; and then applying spheroidizing annealing as required.
摘要:
The present invention provides a hot rolled steel wire rod or bar for machine structural use having, even when a spheroidizing annealing time is reduced, cold workability equal to that of the wire rods or bars treated through conventional spheroidizing annealing of a long treatment time, as a result of controlling a metallographic structure, and a method to produce the same: and relates to a hot rolled steel wire rod or bar for machine structural use, characterized in that; the wire rod or bar is made from a steel consisting of, in weight, 0.1 to 0.5% of C, 0.01 to 0.5% of Si, 0.3 to 1.5% of Mn, and the balance comprising Fe and unavoidable impurities and containing hardening elements as required; its microstructure consists of ferrite and pearlite; its ferrite crystal grain size number defined under Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) G 0552 is 11 or higher; the granular carbide 2 &mgr;m or less in circle-equivalent diameter and having an aspect ratio of 3 or less accounts for a percentage area of 3 to 15%; and its hardness (Hv) satisfies the expression below, 165 Ceq+73.5≦Hv≦195 Ceq+73.5 (where, Ceq=C%+1/7 Si%+1/5 Mn%+1/9 Cr%).
摘要:
The present invention provides a hot rolled steel wire rod or bar for machine structural use having, in the as-hot-rolled condition, cold workability equal to that of the conventional wire rods or bars softened through annealing after hot rolling, and a method to produce the same: and relates to a hot rolled steel wire rod or bar for machine structural use, characterized in that; the wire rod or bar is made from a steel consisting of, in weight, 0.1 to 0.5% of C, 0.01 to 0.5% of Si, 0.3 to 1.5% of Mn, and the balance comprising Fe and unavoidable impurities and containing strengthening elements as required; its microstructure consists of ferrite and pearlite; its ferrite crystal grain size number defined under Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) G 0552 is 11 or higher; and a granular carbide 2 &mgr;m or less in circle-equivalent diameter and having an aspect ratio of 3 or less accounts for a percentage area of 3 to 15%.
摘要:
A cold forging steel excellent in grain coarsening prevention and delayed fracture resistance and method of producing the same are provided that enable omission of a step of annealing or spheroidization annealing before cold forging and improvement of delayed fracture resistance of a high-strength component used with a heat-treated surface. The cold forging steel is a steel of a specified composition having dispersed in the matrix thereof particles of not greater than 0.2 &mgr;m diameter of one or more of TiC, Ti(CN), NbC, Nb(CN) and (Nb, Ti)(CN) in a total number of not less than 20/100 &mgr;m2. The method of producing a cold forging steel includes the steps of heating this steel to not lower than 1050° C., hot-rolling the steel into steel wire or steel bar, and slowly cooling the steel at a cooling rate of not greater than 2 C./s during cooling to a temperature not higher than 600° C. to obtain a steel having dispersed in the matrix thereof particles of not greater than 0.2 &mgr;m diameter of one or more of TiC, Ti(CN), NbC, Nb(CN) and (Nb, Ti)(CN) in a total number of not less than 20/100 &mgr;m2.
摘要:
A machine structural steel bar or wire having a softening degree of at least that of the conventional spheroidization-annealed steel material, excellent hardenability, and improved cold workability, comprising 0.1 to 0.5 wt % of C, 0.01 to 0.15 wt % of Si, 0.2 to 1.7 wt % of Mn, 0.0005 to 0.05 wt % of Al, 0.005 to 0.07 wt % of Ti, 0.0003 to 0.007 wt % of B, 0.002 to 0.02 wt % of N and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, the unavoidable impurities including up to 0.02 wt % of P and up to 0.003 wt % of O, and having a microstructure comprising ferrite and spheroidal carbides, the ferritic grain size number according to JIS G0522 of the ferrite being at least No. 8 and the number of the spheroidal carbides per unit area mm2 being up to 1.5×106×C wt %.
摘要:
This case hardening steel has a chemical composition including, by mass %: C: 0.1 to 0.6%; Si: 0.02 to 1.5%; Mn: 0.3 to 1.8%; P: 0.025% or less; S: 0.001 to 0.15%; Al: over 0.05 to 1.0%; Ti: 0.05 to 0.2%; N: 0.01% or less; and O: 0.0025% or less, and further including, by mass %, one or more of Cr: 0.4 to 2.0%, Mo: 0.02 to 1.5%, Ni: 0.1 to 3.5%, V: 0.02 to 0.5%, and B: 0.0002 to 0.005%, and the balance consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities.
摘要:
A case hardening steel includes by mass %, C: 0.1% to 0.5%, Si: 0.01% to 1.5%, Mn: 0.3% to 1.8%, S: 0.001% to 0.15%, Cr: 0.4% to 2.0%, Ti: 0.05% to 0.2%, Al: limited to 0.2% or less, N: limited to 0.0050% or less, P: limited to 0.025% or less, O: limited to 0.0025% or less, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the number d of sulfide having an equivalent circle diameter more than 5 μm per 1 mm2 and a mass percentage [S] of S satisfy: d≦500×[S]+1.
摘要:
Cold worked, machined, and carburized quenched case-hardened steel prevented from formation of coarse grains, that is, case-hardened steel superior in cold workability, machinability, and fatigue characteristics after carburized quenching characterized by limiting, by mass %, S: 0.001 to 0.15%, Ti: 0.05 to 0.2%, Al: 0.04% or less, and N: 0.0050% or less, containing other specific ingredients in specific ranges, furthermore containing one or more of Mg: 0.003% or less, Zr: 0.01% or less, and Ca: 0.005% or less, limiting the amount of precipitation of AlN to 0.01% or less, and having a density d (/mm2) of sulfides with a equivalent circle diameter of over 20 μm and an aspect ratio of over 3 and a content of S [S] (mass %) satisfying d≦1700[S]+20.
摘要:
This case hardening steel has a chemical composition including, by mass %: C: 0.1 to 0.6%; Si: 0.02 to 1.5%; Mn: 0.3 to 1.8%; P: 0.025% or less; S: 0.001 to 0.15%; Al: over 0.05 to 1.0%; Ti: 0.05 to 0.2%; N: 0.01% or less; and O: 0.0025% or less, and further including, by mass %, one or more of Cr: 0.4 to 2.0%, Mo: 0.02 to 1.5%, Ni: 0.1 to 3.5%, V: 0.02 to 0.5%, and B: 0.0002 to 0.005%, and the balance consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities.
摘要:
A case hardening steel includes by mass %, C: 0.1% to 0.5%, Si: 0.01% to 1.5%, Mn: 0.3% to 1.8%, S: 0.001% to 0.15%, Cr: 0.4% to 2.0%, Ti: 0.05% to 0.2%, Al: limited to 0.2% or less, N: limited to 0.0050% or less, P: limited to 0.025% or less, O: limited to 0.0025% or less, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the number d of sulfide having an equivalent circle diameter more than 5 μm per 1 mm2 and a mass percentage [S] of S satisfy: d 500×[S]+1.