The invention relates to steel for an
excavator driving gear and a manufacturing method thereof. The steel for the
excavator driving gear comprises the following chemical components in percentage by
mass: 0.24 to 0.28 percent of C, 0.30 to 0.45 percent of Si, 0.80 to 0.95 percent of Mn, 1.15 to 1.30 percent of Cr, less than or equal to 0.015 percent of P, 0.025 to 0.035 percent of S, 0.018 to 0.030 percent of Al, 0.0012 to 0.0018 percent of B, 0.05 to 0.10 percent of Cu, 0.16 to 0.28 percent of Ni, 0.06 to 0.12 percent of Mo, less than or equal to 0.003 percent of Sn, less than or equal to 0.003 percent of Sb, 0.006 to 0.0095 percent of N, less than or equal to 0.0010 percent of O and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The method comprises the following steps:
smelting in an electric furnace, refining in a refining furnace, vacuum degassing in a VD furnace,
continuous casting, overall heating of a
continuous casting blank, rolling into round steel, precise
temperature control air cooling, and uniform
slow cooling in a pit. The steel has the characteristics that the steel
oxygen content O is smaller than or equal to 0.0010%, the steel
oxide sum index K2 (O) is smaller than or equal to 20, the
round bar center segregation is smaller than or equal to 0.5 level, the steel structure is uniform
pearlite and ferrite, the
diameter of the
pearlite and the
diameter of the ferrite are 18-25 micrometers, the
hardness discrete value of each rolled
round bar with the same furnace number is controlled to be smaller than or equal to 15 HBW, and the bending degree of the round bars is smaller than or equal to 2.0 mm / m.