The invention relates to 780 MPa grade wheel steel and a manufacturing method thereof. The technological process comprises the steps of KR molten iron desulphurization, converter
smelting,
argon blowing, LF refining, RH vacuum treatment,
continuous casting blank forming, plate blank heating, rolling, cooling and coiling. According to the method, the economical
titanium alloy is adopted,
precipitation strengthening of Ti is not used for improving the strength of
base metal, and solution strengthening and structure strengthening are used for enabling the strength performance of the material to meet the requirement; meanwhile, the process that the front section is rapidly cooled to the medium-low temperature to be coiled is adopted,
precipitation of Ti is inhibited,
precipitation of TiC is inhibited, growth of columnar crystals is inhibited, the
Ti element in the steel in a
solid solution mode can be reserved, most of Ti in the material is inhibited by the high
cooling speed and the low cooling stopping temperature, and the Ti is still in a
solid solution mode and not precipitated in
base metal; the
Ti element is re-precipitated in the
welding stage to the user side, and the strength and
hardness of the
welding heat affected zone and the
welding seam are improved by re-precipitation strengthening of the
Ti element in the process, so that the
softening phenomenon of the welding
heat affected zone and the welding seam can be avoided.