Steel wire and coated steel wire

Abstract

A steel wire includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.40% to 1.10%, Si: 0.005% to 0.350%, Mn: 0.05% to 0.90%, Cr: 0% to 0.70%, Al: 0% to 0.070%, Ti: 0% to 0.050%, V: 0% to 0.10%, Nb: 0% to 0.050%, Mo: 0% to 0.20%, B: 0% to 0.0030%, and a remainder including Fe and impurities; in which a metallographic structure in a cross section includes 80 area % or more of a pearlite structure having a lamellar cementite; an average lamellar spacing which is a spacing between lamellar cementites is 28 nm to 80 nm; an average length of the lamellar cementite is 22.0 μm or less; among the pearlite structure, a pearlite structure having the lamellar cementite of which an inclination with respect to a longitudinal direction of the steel wire is 15° or less is 40 area % or more; an integration degree of a {110} plane of a ferrite with respect to the longitudinal direction is in a range of 2.0 to 8.0, and a diameter of the steel wire is 1.4 mm or more.

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