CN111961988B - Production process and forging method of medium-carbon non-quenched and tempered steel for automobile expansion fracture connecting rod - Google Patents

Production process and forging method of medium-carbon non-quenched and tempered steel for automobile expansion fracture connecting rod Download PDF

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CN111961988B
CN111961988B CN202010918899.0A CN202010918899A CN111961988B CN 111961988 B CN111961988 B CN 111961988B CN 202010918899 A CN202010918899 A CN 202010918899A CN 111961988 B CN111961988 B CN 111961988B
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Abstract

The invention discloses a production process and a forging method of medium-carbon non-quenched and tempered steel for an automobile expansion fracture connecting rod. Through component optimization, special synthetic slag is added in the electric furnace tapping process, a reasonable slag system is adopted in the refining process to control the alkalinity of final slag to be 2.5-3.5, the oxygen content of molten steel is controlled to be 11-18 ppm, calcium treatment is carried out on the molten steel after VD vacuum treatment, special covering slag is adopted in a crystallizer in the continuous casting process, and a round rod is obtained through rolling. The manufacturing method of the forge piece comprises the steps of blanking, heating and forging the round bar, wherein the heating temperature is controlled to be 1150-1200 ℃, the pre-forging temperature is controlled to be 1100-1130 ℃, and the finish forging temperature is controlled to be 920-960 ℃; after forging, a cooling mode combining strong cooling and slow cooling is adopted, so that a uniform pearlite and ferrite structure is finally obtained, an excellent sulfide morphology is obtained, the cutting performance is improved, and the comprehensive performance characteristics such as high strength, toughness and the like can be obtained, so that the non-quenched and tempered steel material for the high-strength connecting rod is successfully developed.

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Production process and forging method of medium-carbon non-quenched and tempered steel for automobile expansion fracture connecting rod
Technical Field
The invention relates to an automobile expansion-fracture connecting rod and a manufacturing method thereof, in particular to an automobile expansion-fracture connecting rod, a manufacturing method of medium carbon non-quenched and tempered steel used by the automobile expansion-fracture connecting rod and a manufacturing method of a forging piece of the medium carbon non-quenched and tempered steel. In particular to a component design and smelting process of medium carbon non-quenched and tempered steel for an expansion fracture connecting rod and a forging and cooling control process of a forge piece of the medium carbon non-quenched and tempered steel.
Background
The connecting rod is one of the key parts of automobile engine and is formed by connecting a connecting rod body and a connecting rod cover by bolts, the connecting rod connects the piston of the engine with the crankshaft and has the function of converting the linear reciprocating motion of the piston into the rotating motion of the crankshaft.
The connecting rod machining mainly comprises a flat cutting process and an expansion cutting process, the traditional connecting rod flat cutting machining process is complex, the stability of an engine is affected due to machining precision errors, the expansion cutting connecting rod technology well solves the problem, the machining procedures are few, and the production cost of the connecting rod is remarkably reduced.
At present, a series of non-quenched and tempered steels for the fractured connecting rod are developed domestically, the non-quenched and tempered steel with high carbon C70S6 is widely applied, the steel is easy to generate brittle fracture, but still has obvious defects: the yield ratio is low; the fatigue property is lower than that of quenched and tempered steel; the brittle lamellar cementite has high hardness and high content, so that the cutting processability of the steel is poor. The connecting rod belongs to a moving part, and the weight reduction of the moving part is more beneficial to the light weight of an automobile, so along with the development trend of light weight and energy conservation of the automobile, higher requirements are put on the material of the expansion-fracture connecting rod, and the connecting rod material is required to have higher yield ratio so as to fully exert the mechanical property of the material besides ensuring the expansion-fracture performance and the strength. The medium-carbon non-quenched and tempered steel reduces the toughness of a ferrite phase, improves the hardness of the ferrite phase, properly embrittles a prior austenite grain boundary, has the ferrite solid solution strengthening effect of silicon and manganese elements and the precipitation strengthening and structure refining effect of vanadium elements, so that the material has higher strength level and yield ratio, and has excellent high-cycle fatigue performance far higher than that of the high-carbon steel C70S6 for the conventional spalling connecting rod, in addition, the fracture of the medium-carbon non-quenched and tempered steel is in typical brittle fracture, and the deformation before and after spalling is small, so that the processing precision is higher, the performance of an engine is more stable, the medium-carbon non-quenched and tempered steel (such as 36MnVS4) has more excellent cutting performance than the high-carbon C70S6 material, the service life of a cutter in a drilling process can be improved by 30%, and the service life of the cutter in a tapping process is improved by 50%.
In order to improve the strength and toughness of the 36MnVS4 material, enough alloy strengthening elements such as Si, Mn and V need to be added, the increase of the alloy elements can cause the material to be easy to have a banded structure, the austenite stability is poor, and unbalanced structures are easy to appear in the cooling process of rolling and forging, so that the requirement on the cooling process after forging is very high, the cooling strength is not enough, the toughness of the material is not enough, the cooling strength is too high, abnormal structures are easy to appear, the ferrite proportion is increased, and therefore how to develop a connecting rod material with high toughness and capable of preventing the abnormal structures from forming becomes a big difficulty in the industry.
For example, the smelting, rolling and forging processes of the existing and more researched non-quenched and tempered steel 36MnVS4 automobile engine connecting rod have more defects, such as 'analysis of expansion defect of the non-quenched and tempered steel 36MnVS4 automobile engine connecting rod, stretch to the epitaxy and the like', researches find that the 36MnVS4 connecting rod obtained through expansion-fracture simulation research is dispersed in the crack initiation position compared with C70S6, the crack is unstable in expansion, the notch sensitivity is high, the ferrite structure is more, the defect of the expansion-fracture process is increased easily during batch production, the non-quenched and tempered steel 36MnVS4 connecting rod obtained by adopting the blank production process has the defects of uneven fracture, continuous expansion, overlarge fracture deformation and the like, and the cutting performance is poor. In the 'process for controlling ferrite content in the production process of the 36MnVS4 material connecting rod', the limitation on the production process temperature, cooling conditions and the like of the connecting rod casting is adopted, but the volume fraction of the finally obtained ferrite is large, the crystal grains are large, the ferrite content can only be controlled within 32-35%, and the ferrite content is difficult to further reduce. In the non-quenched and tempered steel 36MnVS4, too much ferrite content is not beneficial to the expansion-fracture machining of the connecting rod, so that the proportion of the ferrite can be effectively reduced while the mechanical property of high toughness is ensured, an ideal pearlite and ferrite balanced structure is controlled and obtained, and the good cutting performance is further improved. The design of a connecting rod with light weight, enough rigidity and strength and good cutting processability is particularly important for engines.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide an automobile expansion-fracture connecting rod, which can effectively homogenize material structure, obtain an ideal pearlite + ferrite balanced structure, prevent abnormal structures such as bainite and martensite from forming, obtain excellent sulfide morphology, control the ferrite proportion not to exceed 15%, and simultaneously obtain comprehensive performance characteristics such as high strength, toughness, good cutting performance and the like through the optimization design of components and the optimization of smelting, forging and cooling process parameters after forging.
The purpose of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:
the medium carbon non-quenched and tempered steel for the automobile expansion fracture connecting rod comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0.34-0.38% of C, 0.65-0.75% of Si, 0.95-1.05% of Mn, less than or equal to 0.020% of P, 0.030-0.045% of S, 0.11-0.14% of Ni, 0.15-0.23% of Cr, 0.008-0.020% of Al, 0.28-0.32% of V, less than or equal to 0.006% of Ti, less than or equal to 0.05% of Mo, 0.015-0.020% of N, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities.
A production process of medium carbon non-quenched and tempered steel for an automobile expansion fracture connecting rod comprises the working procedures of electric furnace smelting, LF furnace refining, VD vacuum treatment, continuous casting pouring and rolling, and the process flow comprises the following steps:
(1) smelting in an electric furnace, and improving the molten iron ratio when metal materials are proportioned: adopting 65-75% of blast furnace molten iron and 25-35% of high-quality scrap steel (Cu and Mo in the scrap steel are required to be less than or equal to 0.05%); controlling the end point of the electric furnace: 0.05-0.30% of C and less than or equal to 0.013% of P; adding silicomanganese, ferrosilicon and low titanium ferrochrome (Ti is less than or equal to 0.03%) into a ladle in sequence after tapping 1/3; then adding slag: 400 kg lime/furnace and 400 kg/furnace low-titanium synthetic slag (MgO is less than or equal to 2 percent and Al is calculated according to mass percentage)2O337~43%、H2O≤0.5%、TiO2≤0.10%、CaO42~48%、SiO28-15%) and 80-100 kg of calcium carbide per furnace are used for pre-deoxidation of molten steel;
(2) in the LF refining, firstly electrifying for 5 minutes to melt slag, then performing slag surface deoxidation by using 80-100 kg of aluminum powder per furnace, then adding vanadium-nitrogen alloy to adjust the V content and the N content, performing slag surface deoxidation and slag fluidity adjustment by using silicon carbide according to the slag condition in the whole refining process, controlling the slag alkalinity at the later refining stage to be 2.5-3.5 (CaO/SiO) according to the usage amount of the silicon carbide being 60-120 kg per furnace2) The sulfur content is adjusted by adopting ferro-sulphur at the later stage of refining, the aluminum content is adjusted by feeding an aluminum wire, the Al content of LF refining is controlled to be 0.035-0.045%, the purpose of using aluminum in one step at the early stage is achieved, and the aluminum is prevented from being reused after VD vacuum is finished, so that the generated aluminum deoxidation product is prevented from comingThe oxygen content of the molten steel is controlled to be 11-18 ppm so as to ensure that a proper amount of oxides exist in the molten steel;
(3) controlling VD limit vacuum treatment time for 10-18 min, feeding 50-80 m of calcium silicate wire to each furnace steel after VD vacuum treatment is finished to carry out calcium treatment on sulfide in the molten steel, so that the cutting performance of the material can be improved, the molten steel can be prevented from being polluted by impurities such as aluminum oxide and the like, and carrying out soft argon blowing on the molten steel after the calcium treatment is finished so as to promote the floating of the impurities in the molten steel and control the soft blowing time for 25-45 min;
(4) continuous casting, wherein the superheat degree of molten steel is required to be controlled to be 15-30 ℃, and as the steel contains crack sensitive elements such as S, Cr, Ni and the like, the medium-carbon sulfur-containing steel special-purpose covering slag is adopted for the crystallizer covering slag for ensuring the surface quality of a casting blank, and the physical and chemical performance indexes are designed as follows: SiO 2232±3%、CaO 24±2.5%、Al2O3 6.5±1.5%、FeO≤3.0%、MgO 6.0±1.5%、F-3.5±1.0%、R2O(K2O+Na2O 5.0±1.5%、FC 12±1.5%;CaO/SiO20.75 ± 0.05, melting point: 1260 plus or minus 20 ℃ and 0.66 plus or minus 0.20 of viscosity (Pa.S/1300 ℃), wherein the melting point of the special covering slag is 150 ℃ higher than that of the common covering slag and the viscosity (Pa.S/1300 ℃) is 0.05 higher than that of the common covering slag. Similarly, in order to prevent the surface of the casting blank from generating cracks, slow cooling is carried out after the continuous casting is taken out, the temperature of a slow cooling pit is required to be not lower than 500 ℃, and the slow cooling time is not less than 48 hours;
(5) and heating and rolling the 220 x 260 section continuous casting billet to obtain the round rod with the specification of 60 mm.
The method for manufacturing the forge piece by using the medium-carbon non-quenched and tempered steel for the automobile expansion fracture connecting rod comprises the following steps of blanking, heating, forging (including blank manufacturing, pre-forging, final forging, trimming, punching and shaping), cooling and shot blasting flaw detection:
(1) heating: after blanking, a 60mm round bar is subjected to induction heating, and the designed heating temperature is 1150-1200 ℃;
(2) forging: heating and then forging, controlling the pre-forging temperature to be 1100-1130 ℃, controlling the final forging temperature to be 920-960 ℃, and forging into a connecting rod blank;
(3) and (3) cooling: and (3) blowing air to cool the hot connecting rod blank to 600 +/-10 ℃ on a conveyer belt within 5-8 minutes after forging is finished so as to obtain fine lamellar pearlite and inhibit precipitation of proeutectoid ferrite, controlling the proportion of the ferrite to be less than or equal to 15%, and then moving the connecting rod blank into a sand box from the air-cooled conveyer belt for slow cooling at the cooling rate of 0.03-0.10 ℃/S so as to obtain the connecting rod blank.
(4) Shot blasting and flaw detection: and after the connecting rod blank is cooled to normal temperature, performing shot blasting, magnetic powder flaw detection and physical and chemical performance index detection to obtain the qualified connecting rod blank.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the automobile expansion-fracture connecting rod forging manufactured by the method has the advantages of good surface quality, high strength, good plasticity, good appearance of sulfide and good free-cutting performance. The invention makes the following efforts:
firstly, carrying out optimization design on components;
secondly, high-quality scrap steel and molten iron are adopted as metal materials, the content of residual elements is strictly controlled, and low-Ti synthetic slag is adopted.
And thirdly, diffusion deoxidation is carried out by using aluminum and silicon carbide in the refining process, the alkalinity of the slag is controlled to be 2.5-3.5, the slag has enough fluidity to adsorb and remove impurities while certain deoxidation capability of the slag is ensured, and oxygen in steel is controlled to be in a proper range, so that the quantity of the impurities in molten steel is controlled, and spindle-shaped sulfide is formed.
Fourthly, calcium treatment is carried out on sulfide in the molten steel after VD vacuum treatment is finished so as to reduce the number of strip-shaped sulfides; the special covering slag is adopted in the continuous casting process to prevent the surface from generating crack defects.
And fifthly, forging at proper heating temperature, pre-forging temperature and final forging temperature, and cooling by combining forced cooling and slow cooling after forging, so that not only can the precipitation of refined pearlite be controlled, but also more fine pearlite structures can be obtained, the tensile strength of the product is improved, and abnormal structures such as martensite are prevented. A microstructure having excellent toughness is obtained.
Through the synergistic efforts, the high-performance low-weight expansion-fracture connecting rod material is successfully designed, the surface quality of the material is good, abnormal structures such as martensite and bainite are effectively controlled, the ferrite proportion is not more than 15%, the sulfide appearance is excellent, the cutting performance is good, and the successful development of the material is beneficial to promoting the lightweight process of automobiles.
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The raw materials and equipment used in the examples are all common raw materials and equipment in the field if not specified; the methods used in the present invention are conventional in the art unless otherwise specified. The following are merely preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to limit the present invention.
According to the chemical composition of the steel 36MnVS4, the following production process steps are adopted:
example 1
(1) Electric furnace smelting
Adopting 75t blast furnace molten iron and 25t high-quality scrap steel to control the end point of the electric furnace: 0.05-0.30% of C, less than or equal to 0.013% of P, adding silicomanganese, ferrosilicon and low titanium ferrochrome (Ti is less than or equal to 0.03%) into a ladle in sequence after tapping 1/3, and then adding slag: 400 kg lime and 400 kg low titanium synthetic slag (MgO less than or equal to 2 percent, Al)2O337~43%、H2O≤0.5%、TiO2≤0.10%、CaO42~48%、SiO28-15%) and 80-100 kg of calcium carbide.
(2) LF refining
The slag surface deoxidation of the slag is carried out by using 80-100 kg of aluminum powder per furnace in the early stage of refining, the deoxidation and the slag fluidity adjustment are carried out by using 60-120 kg of silicon carbide per furnace in the whole refining process, and the slag alkalinity (CaO/SiO) in the later stage of refining is controlled2) 2.5-3.5, feeding an aluminum wire in the later stage of refining to adjust the aluminum content, controlling the Al content of the LF refining to be 0.035-0.045%, and controlling the oxygen content of the molten steel to be 11-18 ppm.
(3) VD vacuum treatment
And controlling the ultimate vacuum treatment time for 10-18 min, feeding 50-80 m of calcium silicon wire into each furnace steel after VD vacuum treatment is finished to carry out calcium treatment on sulfides in the molten steel, and carrying out soft argon blowing on the molten steel after the calcium treatment is finished, wherein the soft argon blowing time is controlled for 25-45 min.
(4) Continuous casting
Controlling the superheat degree of molten steel to be 15-30 ℃, and controlling the crystallizer casting powderThe special casting powder for medium-carbon sulfur-containing steel is adopted, and the physical and chemical performance indexes are designed as follows: SiO 2232±3%、CaO 24±2.5%、Al2O3 6.5±1.5%、FeO≤3.0%、MgO 6.0±1.5%、F-3.5±1.0%、R2O(K2O+Na2O 5.0±1.5%、FC 12±1.5%;CaO/SiO20.75 ± 0.05, melting point: 1260 plus or minus 20 ℃ and 0.66 plus or minus 0.20 of viscosity (Pa.S/1300 ℃), and after continuous casting and billet discharging, pit slow cooling is carried out, wherein the pit feeding temperature is not lower than 500 ℃, and the slow cooling time is not less than 48 hours;
(5) rolling of
And heating the 220 x 260 section continuous casting billet by a heating furnace and then rolling to obtain the round rod with the specification of 60 mm.
(6) Connecting rod blank forging
The method comprises the steps of blanking a round rod, heating at 1150-1200 ℃, forging, controlling the temperature of pre-forging and pressing at 1100-1130 ℃, controlling the temperature of final forging at 920-960 ℃, forging to obtain a connecting rod blank, blowing air to cool the hot connecting rod blank to 600 +/-10 ℃ on a conveyer belt within 5-8 min after forging is finished, carrying out forced cooling, and then moving the connecting rod blank into a sand box from the air-cooled conveyer belt for slow cooling (the cooling rate is 0.03-0.10 ℃/S).
Five batches of round steel are prepared by adopting the process and correspondingly processed into five batches of connecting rod blanks, the specific different conditions are shown in table 1, and other process parameters are the same.
TABLE 1
Basicity of slag Controlling the oxygen content (%) Feeding calcium silicate wire Forced cooling time Rate of slow cooling
Example 1 2.9 0.00153 80m 6min30S 0.04
Example 2 3.0 0.00147 70m 6min35S 0.06
Example 3 3.2 0.00143 60m 7min13S 0.05
Example 4 2.9 0.00156 60m 6min39S 0.08
Example 5 2.7 0.00161 70m 6min11S 0.03
Comparative example 1
Comparative example 1 is different from example 1 in that: the special synthetic slag is not added in the electric furnace steel tapping process, and the common synthetic slag (common synthetic slag TiO) is used2Content of 0.5 to 1.0%), and the other operations are the same as in example 1.
Comparative example 2
Comparative example 2 differs from example 1 in that: the crystallizer does not adopt special covering slag, and adopts common covering slag (component SiO of common protection)2 28±3%、CaO 25±2.5%、Al2O3 8±1.5%、FeO≤3.0%、MgO 2.0±0.5%、F-3.5±1.0%、R2O(K2O+Na2O 7.0±1.5%、FC 15±1.5%;CaO/SiO20.80 ± 0.05, melting point: 1110. + -. 20 ℃ and a viscosity (Pa.S/1300 ℃) of 0.61. + -. 0.20, which is 150 ℃ lower than that of the exclusive mold flux, and a viscosity (Pa.S/1300 ℃) of 0.05, and the other operations are the same as those of example 1.
Comparative example 3
Comparative example 3 differs from example 1 in that: the oxygen content was controlled to be less than 11ppm and the procedure in example 1 was otherwise the same.
Comparative example 4
Comparative example 4 is different from example 1 in that: the same procedure as in example 1 was carried out except that the molten steel was not subjected to the calcium treatment.
Comparative example 5
Comparative example 5 differs from example 1 in that: after the connecting rod blank is blown to cool and is off the line, the connecting rod blank does not enter a slow cooling box for slow cooling, and the cooling mode of direct stacking cooling is adopted, and other operations are the same as those in embodiment 1.
Comparative example 6
Comparative example 6 differs from example 1 in that: the hot connecting rod blank is blown on a conveyer belt to be cooled to 600 +/-10 ℃ 12 minutes after the forging is finished, and other operations are the same as the embodiment 1.
(1) The chemical compositions of examples 1 to 5 of the present invention and comparative examples 1 to 6 are as follows (wt%):
TABLE 2
Item Number plate C Si Mn Cr P S Al Ni V O N Ti
Example 1 36MnVS4 0.36 0.69 1.00 0.17 0.011 0.039 0.015 0.12 0.30 0.00153 0.0173 0.0033
Example 2 36MnVS4 0.35 0.70 1.01 0.19 0.012 0.039 0.014 0.11 0.30 0.00147 0.0180 0.0029
Example 3 36MnVS4 0.36 0.68 0.99 0.18 0.009 0.040 0.016 0.13 0.29 0.00143 0.0169 0.0028
Example 4 36MnVS4 0.36 0.70 1.00 0.18 0.010 0.038 0.013 0.11 0.29 0.00156 0.0175 0.0034
Example 5 36MnVS4 0.35 0.69 0.98 0.17 0.011 0.041 0.012 0.12 0.30 0.00161 0.0183 0.0031
Comparative example 1 36MnVS4 0.34 0.71 0.97 0.18 0.013 0.038 0.009 0.12 0.31 0.00179 0.0191 0.0071
Comparative example 2 36MnVS4 0.37 0.70 0.98 0.19 0.014 0.040 0.010 0.11 0.29 0.00175 0.0185 0.0042
Comparative example 3 36MnVS4 0.36 0.68 0.99 0.17 0.012 0.036 0.008 0.13 0.31 0.00103 0.0189 0.0045
Comparative example 4 36MnVS4 0.35 0.70 1.00 0.18 0.013 0.042 0.016 0.12 0.30 0.00176 0.0157 0.0039
Comparative example 5 36MnVS4 0.36 0.67 0.99 0.17 0.012 0.037 0.012 0.11 0.29 0.00138 0.0171 0.0036
Comparative example 6 36MnVS4 0.36 0.69 0.99 0.17 0.013 0.038 0.011 0.12 0.29 0.00136 0.0170 0.0038
(2) The following table 3 shows the sulfide grades, the sulfide morphology and the service life of the tool:
TABLE 3
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The detection standard of the sulfide grade is as follows: the method comprises the steps of measuring the content of non-metallic inclusions in GB/T10561 steel, namely, carrying out microscopic inspection on a standard rating image, selecting a plurality of fields by scanning an electron microscope, then counting the number of sulfides in each field, and then measuring the length-width ratio of each sulfide under the scanning electron microscope. Finally, the number of sulfides with the length/width not more than 3 is counted.
(3) The mechanical property indexes and the service performance comparison conditions of the manufactured connecting rod forging are as follows in the following table 4:
TABLE 4 mechanical Properties of non-quenched and tempered connecting rod
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The results show that: by optimally designing the components, adopting special synthetic slag and crystallizer casting powder, controlling the oxygen content to be 11-18 PPM, simultaneously carrying out calcium treatment on the molten steel, adopting reasonable temperature for forging heating, controlling the pre-forging and final forging temperature, and adopting a cooling mode combining air cooling and slow cooling after forging, the successful production of the medium-carbon non-quenched and tempered steel 36MnVS4 for the automobile expansion-broken connecting rod and the forged piece thereof is finally realized, the cutting performance is greatly improved, and the index levels of the strength, the yield ratio and the plastic toughness also reach the international advanced level.

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1. A forging method of medium carbon non-quenched and tempered steel for an automobile expansion fracture connecting rod is characterized by comprising the following steps:
(1) after blanking, the round bar is heated at a proper temperature in an induction heating furnace, and the pre-forging and pressing temperature and the final forging temperature are controlled;
(2) after the forging is finished, a cooling mode combining forced cooling and slow cooling is adopted, and when the connecting rod blank is cooled to normal temperature, flaw detection is carried out to obtain a qualified connecting rod blank;
step (1), controlling the heating temperature to 1150-1200 ℃, controlling the pre-forging temperature to 1100-1130 ℃, and controlling the finish forging temperature to 920-960 ℃;
blowing air to cool the hot connecting rod blank to 600 +/-10 ℃ on a conveyer belt for strong cooling within 5-8 minutes after the forging is finished, and then slowly cooling the connecting rod blank at the cooling rate of 0.03-0.10 ℃/S;
the round bar is prepared by the following method: the method comprises the working procedures of electric furnace smelting, LF furnace refining, VD vacuum treatment, continuous casting pouring and rolling, and comprises the following specific steps:
1) smelting in an electric furnace, wherein 65-75% of blast furnace molten iron and 25-35% of high-quality scrap steel are adopted; controlling the end point C of the electric furnace to be 0.05-0.30% and P to be less than or equal to 0.013%; the tapping 1/3 starts to add silicomanganese, ferrosilicon and low titanium ferrochrome into the ladle in sequence, and then slag and calcium carbide are added for pre-deoxidation of molten steel;
2) electrifying to melt slag firstly in LF refining, then deoxidizing the slag surface of the slag by using aluminum powder, carrying out slag surface deoxidation and slag fluidity adjustment by using silicon carbide according to the slag condition in the refining process, and controlling the slag alkalinity CaO/SiO in the later stage of refining22.5-3.5, feeding an aluminum wire to adjust the aluminum content and controlling the oxygen content of the molten steel to be 11-18 ppm;
(3) controlling VD limit vacuum treatment time for 10-18 min, feeding calcium silicate wire to perform calcium treatment on sulfide and aluminum deoxidation products in molten steel after VD vacuum treatment is finished, and performing soft argon blowing on the molten steel after the calcium treatment is finished, wherein the soft argon blowing time is controlled for 25-45 min;
4) continuous casting, wherein the superheat degree of molten steel is required to be controlled to be 15-30 ℃, the crystallizer casting powder is special medium-carbon sulfur-containing steel casting powder, slow cooling is adopted after continuous casting and billet ejection, the temperature of a slow cooling pit is required to be not lower than 500 ℃, and the slow cooling time is not less than 48 hours;
5) heating and then rolling the continuous casting billet on the section to obtain a round bar with a target component;
the round bar comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0.34-0.38% of C, 0.65-0.75% of Si, 0.95-1.05% of Mn, less than or equal to 0.020% of P, 0.030-0.045% of S, 0.11-0.14% of Ni, 0.15-0.23% of Cr, 0.008-0.020% of Al, 0.28-0.32% of V, less than or equal to 0.006% of Ti, less than or equal to 0.05% of Mo, 0.015-0.020% of N, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities;
the slag charge in the step 1) consists of lime and low-titanium synthetic slag, wherein the low-titanium synthetic slag comprises the following components in percentage by weight: MgO less than or equal to 2 percent and Al2O337~43%、H2O≤0.5%、TiO2 ≤0.10%、CaO 42~48%、SiO2 8~15%;
Step 4) continuous casting crystallizer casting powder with SiO as the component2 32±3%、CaO 24±2.5%、Al2O3 6.5±1.5%、FeO≤3.0%、MgO 6.0±1.5%、F-3.5±1.0%、R2O 5.0±1.5%、FC 12±1.5%、CaO/SiO20.75 + -0.05, melting point 1260 + -20 deg.C, viscosity 0.66 + -0.20 Pa.S at 1300 deg.C, wherein R is2O is K2O and Na2O。
2. The forging method of the medium-carbon non-quenched and tempered steel for the automobile fractured connecting rod according to claim 1, wherein the forging method comprises the following steps: and 2) feeding an aluminum wire to adjust the aluminum content, controlling the Al content of the LF refining to be 0.035-0.045%, and enabling the aluminum to be in place in one step to prevent the VD from being reused after the vacuum is finished.
3. The forging method of the medium-carbon non-quenched and tempered steel for the automobile fractured connecting rod according to claim 1, wherein the forging method comprises the following steps: and 3) feeding 50-80 m of calcium silicon wire into each furnace of steel to perform calcium treatment on the molten steel.
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