Carburized part and method for manufacturing same
AssigneeNippon Steel Corporation
InventorsMiyuri Umehara, Shingo Yamasaki
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method for obtaining a carburized part using steel high in content of Cr and realizing bending fatigue strength at an extremely high level by vacuum carburizing. The carburized part is obtained by treating a steel material having a predetermined chemical composition by vacuum carburizing provided with a carburizing period of 10 to 200 minutes at 850 to 1100° C. and a diffusion period of 15 to 300 minutes at 850 to 1100° C., then quenching and tempering it.
Claims4
A carburized part, a chemical composition in a region of a depth of 1.5 mm or more from a surface of the carburized part containing, by mass %,
- C:
- 0.10 to 0.40%,
- Si:
- 0.10 to 3.00%,
- Mn:
- 0.50 to 3.00%,
- Cr:
- 0.30 to 3.00%,
- Al:
- 0.010 to 0.050%,
- N:
- 0.003 to 0.030%,
- S:
- 0.003 to 0.030%,
- P:
- 0.030% or less,
- Mo:
- 0 to 3.00%,
- B:
- 0 to 0.0050%,
- Nb:
- 0 to 0.100%,
- Ti:
- 0 to 0.100%,
- V:
- 0 to 0.30%,
- Ni:
- 0 to 0.40%,
- In:
- 0 to 0.02%,
- Cu:
- 0 to 0.20%,
- Bi:
- 0 to 0.300%,
- Pb:
- 0 to 0.50%,
- REMs:
- 0 to 0.020% and
- a balance of Fe and impurities;
- a Vickers hardness at a depth of 1.5 mm from the surface being 200 to 400 HV;
- a content of C at a region of a depth down to 0.10 mm from the surface being, by mass %, 0.60 to 1.20%;
- a fraction of hardened structures of an area ratio being 99.00% or more;
- a grain boundary cementite fraction of an area ratio being 0.50% or less;
- a fraction of incompletely hardened structures of an area ratio being 0.50% or less.
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