High carbon steel wire rod excellent in drawability and fatigue resistance after wire drawing

• Main Authors: YAMADA WATARU, SUGIMARU SATOSHI, NISHIDA SEIKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 02.04.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ALLOYS; CHEMISTRY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUSMETALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE BY DECARBURISATION, TEMPERING OR OTHERTREATMENTS; METALLURGY; METALLURGY OF IRON; MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS

The present invention provides a high carbon steel wire remarkably excellent in wire-drawability and fatigue resistance after wire drawing with a low cost due to reduced use of costly alloys. A high carbon steel wire according to the present invention is one excellent in wire-drawability and fatigue resistance after wire drawing, characterized in that; the total oxygen content is 15 to 50 ppm; among non-metallic inclusions included therein, the number of inviscid inclusions is 1.5 pieces/mm or less in average under the visual field of an optical microscope; among the inviscid inclusions, the number of those having a composition falling within composition A specified below accounts for more than 20% and the total number of those having a composition falling within composition A or B specified below accounts for 80% or more; and the thickness of the inviscid inclusions having a composition falling within composition A specified below is 40 mu m or less; composition A: containing over 70% of SiO2, composition B: containing 25 to 70% of SiO2, 8 to 30% of MnO, 40% or less of MgO, 35% or less of Al2O3, 25% or less of CaO and 6% or less of TiO2, and at least 5% of one or both of Al2O3 and MgO, and additionally at least 2% of one or both of CaO and TiO2.