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Excellent Cold-Workability Exhibiting High-Strength Steel Wire or Steel Bar or High-Strength Shaped Article, and Process for Producing Them

a high-strength steel wire or steel bar technology, applied in the field of excellent cold workability exhibiting high-strength steel wire or steel bar or high-strength shaped articles, can solve the problems of large loss of heat energy, long time, and the shape of the article is subject to thermal refining

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-02-21
NAT INST FOR MATERIALS SCI
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The invention provides an excellent cold-workability exhibiting high-strength steel wire or steel bar with fine grain sizes and no cementite. The steel has a ferrite structure with an average grain size in a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of 500 nm or less. The steel has a C content of not greater than a solid solution limit of carbon in a ferrite phase at Ael point. The invention also provides a high-strength shaped article with the same excellent cold-workability. The process for producing the steel involves warm working and cold working. The technical effects of the invention include improved cold-workability, high-strength, and excellent shaped article production.

Problems solved by technology

However, because the shaped article thus processed does not meet strength necessary as a final product by the above softening treatment, it is required that the shaped article is subjected to thermal refining such as quenching / tempering.
Thus, in the production steps of the conventional high-strength parts for machine structural use, because of a previous softening treatment to a raw material and thermal refining to a shaped article after cold working, it requires long time, and at the same time, is complicated, loss of heat energy is large and productivity is low.
Thus, there were problems in the points of increase in heat treatment cost and administration of delivery time.
Further, the problem remains such that in order to form C in the steel as a carbide other than Fe3C, V which is relatively expensive metallic element is added, and this incurs increase in costs.
However, to make this actually possible, it is necessary to melt-produce a steel such that a cementite is not substantially formed in a standard structure of a steel, as a chemical component composition.

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example 1 and example 2

[II] (1)-1) Common Test Between Example 1 and Example 2 (Warm Rolling Step and Characterization Test of Test Material Obtained)

[0087]Example 1 and Example 2 were tested as follows. A steel having the chemical component composition shown in Table 1 was melted using a vacuum melting furnace, and cast into a steel ingot. This chemical component composition is, for example, that, in the chemical component composition defined by SWRCH5A belonging to the carbon steel wire rod for cold heading according to JIS G 3507, having Si content of 0.10 mass % or less, Si contains 0.30 mass % exceeding the Si content. However, there is the characteristic in the point that C content is low 0.0245 mass %.

TABLE 1Chemical component composition (mass %)SuppliedCSiMnPSNsol. AlExample 10.02450.300.200.0100.0010.00180.032Example 2

[0088]The steel ingot obtained above was shaped into a steel bar of 80 mm square by hot forging. Metal structure of those steel bars was ferrite main phase, and the average grain s...

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[0123]As Example 3 within the scope of the invention of this application, the following test was conducted. A commercially available steel wire rod of 13 mm diameter belonging to SWRCH5A of the carbon steel wire rods for cold heading defined in JIS G 3507, having the chemical component composition shown in Table 8, and produced by hot rolling was used. The component of this steel wire rod has carbon C of 0.03 mass %, and is similar to the component composition of the steels used in Example 1 and Example 2. However, Si content of the steel used in Example 3 is 0.03 mass %, differing from Si=0.30 mass % in Examples 1 and 2, and satisfies the Si content provision (Si≦0.10 mass %) of SWRCH5A.

TABLE 8JISChemical component composition (mass %)correspondingsol.Suppliedto componentCSiMnPSAlExample 3SWRCH5A0.030.030.200.0160.0100.035

[0124]The above hot rolled steel wire of 13 mm diameter was worked into a steel wire rod of 6.0 mm diameter by multidirection and multipass warm rolling with cali...

examples 1 to 9

being fallen within the scope of the invention of this application were tested as follows.

[0164]Each of steels having the chemical component composition of component Nos. 1 to 5 shown in Table 16 was melted using a vacuum melting furnace, and cast into a steel ingot. The compositional characteristics here are that it is an ultra-low carbon steel in which carbon C is changed within a range of C content of from 0.0014 to 0.0109 mass %, component No. 4 has high level of Si=1.01 mass % as compared with others, and component No. 5 has N=0.0080 mass % which is relatively high as compared with others.

TABLE 16Chemical componentComponentcomposition (mass %)No.SuppliedCSiMnPSNSol. Al1Examples0.00140.300.200.0090.0010.00310.0281 and 62Examples0.00470.300.200.0090.0010.00240.0262 and 73Examples0.00980.300.200.0090.0010.00250.0283 and 84Examples0.01091.010.190.0100.0010.00200.0334 and 95Example 50.00950.300.190.0090.0010.00800.029

[0165]The steel ingots obtained were shaped into a steel bar of 80...

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Abstract

There are provided an excellent cold-workability exhibiting high-strength steel wire or steel bar, or high-strength shaped article and a process for producing them. In particular, there is provided a process comprising carrying out hot working at 350 to 800° C. of a steel ingot, cast slab, steel slab or steel semifinished product having a C content of not greater than the solid solution limit of carbon of ferrite phase at Ael point and not greater than 0.010 mass % and being free of any cementite, or having a C content of >0.01 to 0.45 mass % to thereby obtain a material whose average crystal grain diameter in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction is ≦3 μm, and thereafter carrying out cold working of the material to thereby attain formation of a ferrite structure whose average crystal grain diameter in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction is ≦500 nm.

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TECHNICAL FIELD [0001]The present invention relates to an excellent cold-workability exhibiting high-strength steel wire or steel bar or a high-strength shaped article such as a screw and a bolt utilizing those characteristics, and a process for producing those steel wire or steel bar and high-strength shaped article.BACKGROUND ART[0002]Conventionally, regarding a screw or a bolt produced by shaping a steel wire or a steel bar by cold working such as cold heading, and rolling and / or machiening, and other high-strength parts for machine structural use, a steel wire rod produced by hot processing is processed into a steel wire having the desired wire diameter by cold working, the steel wire obtained is subjected to a so-called spheroidizing annealing treatment that makes a cementite in a metal structure spherical, by heating the steel wire at a temperature of about 700° C. for a long period of time of from about ten-odd hours to on day and night to soften the material, thereby improvi...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C21D7/02C21D9/52C22C38/00C21D8/06C21D9/00C22C38/04
CPCC21D7/02C21D8/06C22C38/04C21D2211/005C21D9/0093
Inventor TORIZUKA, SHIROMURAMATSU, EIJIRONAGAI, KOTOBU
Owner NAT INST FOR MATERIALS SCI
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