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Definitions

• the present disclosure relates to a non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod with excellent machinability and impact toughness and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to a non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod suitable for use as a material for automobiles or mechanical parts and a method for manufacturing the same.
• non-quenched and tempered steels are not only economically advantageous by reducing heat treatment costs, simplifying processes to shorten delivery time, and improving productivity, but also eco-friendly by reducing CO 2 that is generated by operating a furnace during heat treatment.
• non-quenched and tempered steels were applied only to parts that do not require high toughness due to relatively inferior toughness thereof to that of quenched and tempered steels.
• An aspect of the present disclosure provides a non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod with improved machinability and impact toughness by improving toughness inferior to that of conventional quenched and tempered steels and by adding high contents of S and N without additional heat treatment, and a method for manufacturing the same.
• a non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod with improved machinability and impact toughness includes, in percent by weight (wt%), 0.3% to 0.5% of C, 0.4% to 0.9% of Si, 0.5% to 1.2% of Mn, 0.02% or less of P, 0.01% to 0.05% of S, 0.015% to 0.05% of sol.Al, 0.1% to 0.3% of Cr, 0.007% to 0.02% of N, and the remainder including Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a microstructure includes ferrite and pearlite, and an average thickness of the pearlite layer in a L cross-section, which is a cross-section parallel to a rolling direction, is 30 ⁇ m or less.
• an average grain size of ferrite in a C cross-section which is a cross-section perpendicular to the rolling direction, may be 20 ⁇ m or less.
• the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod satisfies Relational Expression 1 below. 20 ⁇ Mn/S ⁇ 70
• the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod satisfies Relational Expression 2 below. 1.4 ⁇ Al/N ⁇ 7
• the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod satisfies Relational Expression 3 below. 0.7 ⁇ Mn + Cr ⁇ 1.4
• the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod satisfies Relational Expression 4 below.
• the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod satisfies Relational Expression 5 below.
• Mn c represents an average content (at%) of Mn contained in cementite in pearlite
• Mn f represents an average content (at%) of Mn contained in ferrite in pearlite.
• the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod may have a tensile strength of 700 MPa or more and a yield strength of 350 to 500 MPa.
• a yield ratio (yield strength/tensile strength) may be in a range of 0.45 to 0.65
• a room-temperature impact toughness may be 60 J/cm 2 or more
• a product of the tensile strength and the impact toughness may be 45000 MPa ⁇ J/cm 2 or more.
• a method for manufacturing a non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod with improved machinability and impact toughness includes: reheating a steel piece including, in percent by weight (wt%), 0.3% to 0.5% of C, 0.4% to 0.9% of Si, 0.5% to 1.2% of Mn, 0.02% or less of P, 0.01% to 0.05% of S, 0.015% to 0.05% of sol.Al, 0.1% to 0.3% of Cr, 0.007% to 0.02% of N, and the remainder including Fe and inevitable impurities in a temperature range of 950°C to 1100°C; finish rolling the reheated steel piece into a steel wire rod at a temperature of 750°C to 850°C; and winding and cooling the steel wire rod, wherein the cooling performed after the winding includes: a first cooling process performed at an average cooling rate of 5°C/s to 100°C/s from the finish rolling temperature to a winding temperature; a second cooling process performed after the first cooling process at an average cooling
• the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod with improved machinability and impact toughness Al combines with N to form AlN nitrides that inhibit the growth of grain boundaries during heating, thereby decreasing the thickness of the pearlite layer and refine grains of ferrite to improve impact toughness.
• machinability may be improved while minimizing deterioration of impact toughness by refining MnS grains by controlling the Mn/S ratio. Therefore, the steel wire rod may be applied to materials for automobiles or mechanical parts that require bot machinability and impact toughness even when heat treatment is omitted.
• a non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod with improved machinability and impact toughness includes, in percent by weight (wt%), 0.3% to 0.5% of C, 0.4% to 0.9% of Si, 0.5% to 1.2% of Mn, 0.02% or less of P, 0.01% to 0.05% of S, 0.015% to 0.05% of sol.Al, 0.1% to 0.3% of Cr, 0.007% to 0.02% of N, and the remainder including Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a microstructure includes ferrite and pearlite, and an average thickness of the pearlite layer in a L cross-section, which is a cross-section parallel to a rolling direction, is 30 ⁇ m or less.
• the present inventors have examined a method for providing a steel wire rod with machinability and impact toughness from various angles and have found that machinability and impact toughness may be obtained by appropriately controlling a composition of alloying elements and a microstructure of the steel wire rod without additional heat treatment, thereby completing the present disclosure.
• a non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod with improved machinability and impact toughness includes, in percent by weight (wt%), 0.3% to 0.5% of C, 0.4% to 0.9% of Si, 0.5% to 1.2% of Mn, 0.02% or less of P, 0.01% to 0.05% of S, 0.015% to 0.05% of sol.Al, 0.1% to 0.3% of Cr, 0.007% to 0.02% of N, and the remainder including Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a microstructure includes ferrite and pearlite, and an average thickness of the pearlite layer in a L cross-section, which is a cross-section parallel to a rolling direction, is 30 ⁇ m or less.
• the unit is wt% unless otherwise stated.
• the content of C is 0.3% to 0.5%.
• Carbon (C) is an element serving to improve strength of a steel wire rod. To obtain the above-described effect, it is preferable to include C in an amount of 0.3% or more. However, an excessive C content may deteriorate toughness and machinability, and thus the upper limit of the C content may be controlled to 0.5%.
• the content of Si is 0.4% to 0.9%.
• the content of Mn is 0.5% to 1.2%.
• Manganese (Mn) is an element effective as a deoxidizer and a desulfurizer. With a Mn content less than 0.5%, the above-described effect cannot be obtained. With a Mn content exceeding 1.2%, strength of the steel excessively increases to rapidly increase deformation resistance of the steel, resulting in deterioration of cold workability, and therefore, the upper limit of the Mn content may be controlled to 1.2%.
• the content of P is 0.02% or less.
• Phosphorus (P) as an impurity inevitably contained in steels, segregate into grain boundaries as a major causative element deterioration of toughness and reduction in delayed fracture resistance. Therefore, it is preferable to control the P content as low as possible. Theoretically, it is preferable to control the P content to 0% but P is inevitably included during a manufacturing process. Therefore, it is important to control the upper limit, and the upper limit of the P content may be controlled to 0.02% in the present disclosure.
• the content of S is 0.01% to 0.05%.
• S Sulfur
• MnS Sulfur
• the S content is controlled within a range of 0.01% to 0.05% in the present disclosure in consideration of an S content effective for improvement of machinability without significantly impairing toughness of the steel.
• the content of sol.Al is 0.015% to 0.05%.
• the sol.Al is an element effective as a deoxidizer.
• the sol.Al may be contained in an amount of 0.015% to obtain the above-describe effect.
• the upper limit of the Al content may be controlled to 0.05% in the present disclosure.
• the content of Cr is 0.1% to 0.3%.
• Chromium (Cr) is an element serving to promote transformation of ferrite and pearlite during hot rolling.
• Cr does not increase the strength of the steel more than necessary, reduces an amount of solid solution of C by precipitating carbides, and contributes to reduction in dynamic deformation aging caused by solid solution of carbon.
• the upper limit of the Cr content may be controlled to 0.3%.
• the content of N is 0.007% to 0.02%.
• N is an essential element for implementing an effect on improving impact toughness by decreasing grain sizes via formation of a nitride with Al.
• a N content less than 0.007%, it is difficult to obtain a sufficient amount of the nitride, resulting in a decrease in production of AlN precipitates, failing to obtain toughness desired in the present disclosure.
• a N content exceeding 0.02% a solid solution of N, not present as a nitride, increases to deteriorate toughness and ductility of the steel wire rod. Therefore, the upper limit of the N content may be controlled to 0.02% in the present disclosure.
• the remaining component of the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod of the present disclosure is iron (Fe).
• the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod may include other impurities incorporated during common industrial manufacturing processes of steels.
• the impurities are not specifically mentioned in the present disclosure, as they are known to any person skilled in the art of manufacturing.
• the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes ferrite and pearlite as microstructures, and an average thickness of the pearlite layer in the L cross-section, which is a cross-section parallel to a rolling direction, may be 30 ⁇ m or less.
• an average thickness of the pearlite layer in the L cross-section which is a cross-section parallel to a rolling direction, may be 30 ⁇ m or less.
• the thickness of pearlite exceeds 30 ⁇ m and a band of coarse pearlite is formed, a total interface between ferrite and pearlite decreases and an impact energy cannot be distributed, so that cracks easily propagate and impact toughness decreases.
• an average grain size of ferrite in a C cross-section which is a cross-section perpendicular to the rolling direction, may be 20 ⁇ m or less.
• the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may satisfy Relational Expressions 1 to 5.
• Relational Expressions 1 to 4 [Al], [N], [C], [S], [Mn], and [Si] respectively represent contents (wt%) of the elements. 20 ⁇ Mn / S ⁇ 70 machinability
• Relational Expression 1 is an expression related to machinability.
• MnS is formed by adding high contents of S and Mn.
• MnS as an elongated inclusion, has a shape and an orientation elongated in a rolling direction and significantly improves machinability of the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod of the present disclosure.
• MnS serving as a starting point of cracks and a propagation path thereof in the case of impact applied thereto, thereby deteriorating impact toughness.
• the Mn/S ratio is less than 20, machinability may be satisfied, but impact toughness may deteriorate.
• the Mn/S ratio exceeds 70, machinability may be insufficient. Therefore, the Mn/S ratio may be controlled to 20 to 70 in the present disclosure.
• Relational Expression 2 is an expression related to toughness.
• AlN is formed by adding high contents of N and Al. Precipitation of fine AlN in a steel refines crystal grains to improve impact toughness of the non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod according to the present disclosure.
• the Al/N ratio may be controlled in the range of 1.4 to 7, preferably 1.9 to 5.0, and more preferably 3.5 to 5.0.
• Relational Expression 3 is an expression related to impact toughness.
• Mn and Cr refine the inter-layer spacing of pearlite to have an effect on improving toughness. The effect is sufficiently obtained when a sum of Mn and Cr is 0.7 or more. However, when the sum of Mn and Cr exceeds 1.4, a fraction of pearlite increases, resulting in an excessive increase in strength causing deterioration of impact toughness. Therefore, in the present disclosure, the sum of Mn and Cr is controlled in a range of 0.7 to 1.4, preferably 0.8 to 1.3, and more preferably 1.0 to 1.3. 0.2 ⁇ C / Mn ⁇ 0 .7 impact toughness
• Relational Expression 4 is an expression related to impact toughness.
• the C/Mn ratio is less than 0.2, hard structures having a low toughness such as martensite or bainite are likely formed, resulting in deterioration of impact toughness.
• the C/Mn ratio is controlled in a range of 0.2 to 0.7, preferably 0.3 to 0.6, and more preferably 0.4 to 0.5. 0 ⁇ Mn c / Mn f ⁇ 3 cold workability
• Mn c represents an average content (at%) of Mn contained in cementite in pearlite
• Mn f represents an average content (at%) of Mn contained in ferrite in pearlite.
• Relational Expression 5 is an expression related to cold workability and represents a Mn distribution ratio in pearlite.
• the Mn distribution ratio in pearlite is a value obtained by dividing an average content (at%) of Mn contained in cementite in pearlite by an average content (at%) of Mn contained in ferrite in pearlite.
• the Mn distribution ratio in pearlite is controlled in a range of 0 to 3. The inventors have confirmed, through numerous experiments, that cold workability was improved in the case where the Mn distribution ratio in pearlite satisfied 3 or less, thereby completing the present disclosure. Because Mn is an element with a strong tendency to segregate into cementite in pearlite, common pearlite has a Mn distribution ratio of 5 or more.
• Mn distribution ratio In order to control the Mn distribution ratio to 3 or less, distribution of Mn into cementite in pearlite should be inhibited, and the Mn distribution ratio in pearlite may be achieved by a cooling process, performed after the winding process, of applying different cooling rates to different temperature sections, respectively, according to the present disclosure.
• non-quenched and tempered steel material may have a tensile strength of 700 MPa or more.
• non-quenched and tempered steel material may have a yield strength of 350 to 500 MPa.
• non-quenched and tempered steel material may have a yield ratio of 0.45 to 0.65.
• non-quenched and tempered steel material may have an impact toughness of 60 J/cm 2 or more.
• non-quenched and tempered steel material may have a product of the tensile strength and the impact toughness of 45000 MPa ⁇ J/cm 2 or more.
• a method for manufacturing a non-quenched and tempered steel wire rod with improved machinability and impact toughness includes: reheating a steel piece including, in percent by weight (wt%), 0.3% to 0.5% of C, 0.4% to 0.9% of Si, 0.5% to 1.2% of Mn, 0.02% or less of P, 0.01% to 0.05% of S, 0.015% to 0.05% of sol.Al, 0.1% to 0.3% of Cr, 0.007% to 0.02% of N, and the remainder including Fe and inevitable impurities in a temperature range of 950°C to 1100°C; finish rolling the reheated steel piece into a steel wire rod at a temperature of 750°C to 850°C; and winding and cooling the steel wire rod, wherein the cooling performed after the winding includes: a first cooling process performed at an average cooling rate of 5 to 100°C/s from the finish rolling temperature to a winding temperature; a second cooling process performed after the first cooling process at an average cooling rate of 2 to 5
• an average grain size of ferrite in the C cross-section which is a cross-section perpendicular to the rolling direction, is 20 ⁇ m or less.
• Relational Expression 1 below may be satisfied.
• Relational Expression 2 may be satisfied. 1.4 ⁇ Al / N ⁇ 7
• Relational Expression 3 may be satisfied.
• Relational Expression 4 may be satisfied.
• Relational Expression 5 may be satisfied. 0 ⁇ Mn c / Mn f ⁇ 3
• a bloom satisfying the above-described composition of alloying elements is heated and rolled into a billet.
• the reheating process is a process for lowering a rolling load while rolling the steel wire rod.
• the reheating process may be performed in the temperature range of 950°C to 1120°C.
• the rolling load may increase causing difficulties in the manufacturing method.
• a reheating temperature above 1,100°C AlN formed in the steel piece turns to a solid solution again during heating, so that grain refinement effect by the AlN may significantly decrease.
• a finish rolling temperature of the hot rolling may be 750°C to 850°C.
• a rolling load may increase, and at a finish rolling temperature above 850°C, crystal grains may coarsen so that a high toughness desired in the present disclosure may not be obtained.
• a process of winding the steel wire rod manufactured as described above in the shape of a coil may be performed.
• a winding temperature may be 750°C to 850°C. Because a temperature of the steel wire rod obtained by finish rolling may increase by transformation heating, a temperature of the steel wire rod immediately before winding may be higher than a final rolling temperature. In this case, the steel wire rod may be wound after being cooled to the winding temperature or may be wound without an additional cooling process depending on the temperature increased by the heating.
• a winding temperature below 750°C martensite generated in the surface layer during cooling cannot be recovered due to double rows, and tempered martensite is formed causing a problem of increasing a potential to induce surface defects during a drawing process.
• thick scales may be formed on the surface of the steel wire rod so that surface defects may easily occur during descaling and productivity may deteriorate due to an increase in cooling time in a subsequent cooling process.
• the cooling process is a process of controlling the above-described distribution ratio of Mn contained in cementite and ferrite in pearlite.
• Mn distribution ratio of cementite in pearlite 3 or less
• distribution of Mn needs to be inhibited as much as possible during the cooling process.
• it is effective for applying different cooling rates to different temperature sections .
• the first cooling process may be performed at an average cooling rate of 5°C/s to 100°C/s from the final rolling temperature to the winding temperature. Since Mn diffuses very rapidly in the temperature section of the first cooling process, there is a high possibility that the Mn distribution ratio exceeds 3 at a cooling rate lower than 5°C/s, and it is difficult to commercially apply a cooling rate higher than 100°C/s. Therefore, the first cooling process may be performed at a cooling rate of 5°C/s to 100°C/s.
• the second cooling process may be performed after the first cooling process at an average cooling rate of 2°C/s to 5°C/s from the winding temperature to 700°C.
• the Mn distribution ratio may exceed 3 due to diffusion of Mn, and at a cooling rate higher than 5°C/s, an non-uniform material such as mixed material may be obtained due to non-uniform cooling. Therefore, the second cooling process may be performed at a cooling rate of 2°C/s to 5°C/s.
• the third cooling process may be performed after the second cooling process at an average cooling rate of 0.1°C/s to 2°C/s from 700°C to 450°C.
• a cooling rate lower than 0.1°C/s lamella spacing of pearlite coarsens, so that it is difficult to obtain strength desired in the present disclosure
• a cooling rate higher than 2°C/s a low-temperature bainite structure may be formed during the cooling. Therefore, the third cooling process may be performed at a cooling rate of 0.1°C/s to 2°C/s.
• Each of the blooms having a composition of alloying elements shown in Table 1 was heated at 1,200°C for 4 hours, and rolled into a billet at a finish rolling temperature of 1,100°C. Then, the billet was heated at 1,100°C for 90 minutes and hot-rolled into a steel wire rod at a finish rolling temperature of 800°C using a 25 mm-roll. Subsequently, the three-step cooling process including CR1-CR2-CR3 temperature sections was applied thereto to manufacture steel wire rod specimens of Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 to 13. Then, microstructures of the cooled steel wire rod specimens and Mn distribution ratios of ferrite/cementite were shown in Table 2 below, and tensile strength and impact toughness properties thereof were measured and shown in Table 3 below.
• room-temperature tensile strength was measured at the center of the specimens of the non-quenched and tempered steels at 25°C
• room-temperature impact toughness was measured from the specimens having a U-notch (based on a standard sample, 10x10x55 mm) at 25°C using a Charpy impact energy value obtained by the Charpy impact test.
• the steel wire rod having a diameter of 26 mm was processed with a reduction rate of 14.8% into a cold drawn bar (CD-Bar) with a diameter of 24 mm.
• the machinability was evaluated by using a CNC lathe, and breakability of turned chips was evaluated after performing turning operations until the diameter of 24 mm of the CD-Bar decreased to a diameter of 15 mm.
• cutting was performed under the conditions of a cutting rate of 100 mm/min, a feedrate of 0.1 mm/rev, and a cutting depth of 1.0 mm by using a cutting oil.
• Breakability of cut chips was evaluated based on the number of the cut chips produced during a turning process, 5 or less of cut chips was evaluated as good, more than 5 but not more than 10 of cut chips was evaluated as fair, and more than 10 cut chips was evaluated as poor, and the results are shown in Table 3.
• an average thickness of the pearlite layer was obtained by calculating an arithmetic mean from 30 images obtained at 200x magnification at points corresponding to the quarter of the diameter of the steel wire rod, and the average grain size of ferrite refers to a value corresponding to an equivalent circular diameter.
• the steel wire rods of Examples 1 to 7 satisfying all of the chemical composition, the relational expressions, and the manufacturing conditions provided in the present disclosure satisfied a tensile strength of 700 MPa or more, a room-temperature impact toughness of 60 J/cm 2 or more, and a tensile strength x impact toughness value of 45000 MPa ⁇ J/cm 2 or more, and machinability.
• the steel wire rods of Comparative Examples 1 to 5 out of the chemical composition could not satisfy one or more of the values.
• Comparative Examples 10 to 13 not satisfying the heating temperature and cooling conditions among the manufacturing conditions, both the target tensile strength and impact toughness could not be satisfied.
• a non-quenched and tempered steel wire having excellent machinability and impact toughness may be obtained without additional heat treatment, and therefore the present disclosure has industrial applicability.

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