Methods for manufacturing wire rod for cold forging and screw part, having excellent drilling characteristics
AssigneePosco
InventorsByungin JUNG, Youngsoo CHUN, Yongsik PARK
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methods for manufacturing a wire rod for cold forging and a screw part, which may manufacture with only quenching heat treatment a part with excellent drilling characteristics, and which may specifically manufacture a part to be used for mechanical coupling of automotive parts manufactured with different materials.
Claims7
A method for manufacturing a wire rod for cold forging having excellent drilling characteristics, the method comprising:
- providing a billet including, in percent by weight (wt %), 0.30 to 0.50% of carbon (C), 0.30 to 0.50% of silicon (Si), 0.35 to 0.75% of manganese (Mn), 0.40 to 0.70% of chromium (Cr), 0.010 to 0.050% of titanium (Ti), 0.01 to 0.05% of aluminum (Al), 0.0010 to 0.0050% boron (B), 0.002 to 0.020% of nitrogen (N), and the balance of iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities;
- heating the billet to a temperature of 900 to 1200° C. and finish hot rolling the billet to at a temperature of 800 to 1000° C. prepare a wire rod:
- coiling the wire rod at a temperature of 700 to 900° C. to control an average crystal grain size of austenite to 30 μm or less;
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- cooling the coiled wire rod at a rate of 0.4 to 1.0° C./s.
A method for manufacturing a screw part, the method comprising:
- softening heat-treating a wire rod at a temperature of 600 to 800° C., the wire rod comprising, in percent by weight (wt %), 0.30 to 0.50% of carbon (C), 0.30 to 0.50% of silicon (Si), 0.35 to 0.75% of manganese (Mn), 0.40 to 0.70% of chromium (Cr), 0.010 to 0.050% of titanium (Ti), 0.01 to 0.05% of aluminum (Al), 0.0010 to 0.0050% boron (B), 0.002 to 0.020% of nitrogen (N), and the balance of iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities, wherein a microstructure includes, in area fraction, 45 to 60% of ferrite and 40 to 55% of pearlite, and an average crystal grain size of austenite is 30 μm or less;
- cold forging the softening heat-treated wire rod to form a screw part shape having a body diameter of 3 to 6 mm;
- heating the screw part shape at a temperature of 850 to 950° C. for 500 to 4,000 seconds to control the average crystal grain size of austenite to 15 μm or less;
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- quenching the wire rod in a refrigerant at a temperature of 20 to 100° C. after the heating.
A screw part comprising a microstructure including, in area fraction, 70% or more of autotempered martensite, 0.1 to 5% of bainite, 1 to 28% of fresh martensite, and 0.1 to 1% of retained austenite,
- wherein an average thickness of a carbide precipitated in crystal grains of prior austenite is 20 nm or less, and the screw part has a hardness of 500 HV or more at room temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.