EP1857563A1 - Composant nitrure souple en acier non trempe - Google Patents

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EP1857563A1
EP1857563A1 EP06713575A EP06713575A EP1857563A1 EP 1857563 A1 EP1857563 A1 EP 1857563A1 EP 06713575 A EP06713575 A EP 06713575A EP 06713575 A EP06713575 A EP 06713575A EP 1857563 A1 EP1857563 A1 EP 1857563A1
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  • the present invention relates to soft-nitrided machinery parts made of non-heat treated steel and, more specifically, relates to soft-nitrided machinery parts such as a crankshaft and a connecting rod for automobiles, industrial machinery, construction machinery and the like.
  • machinery parts such as a crankshaft and a connecting rod for automobiles, industrial machinery, construction machinery and the like are manufactured by performing thermal refining (quenching, tempering, normalizing, annealing) after hot working by means of hot forging or the like.
  • thermal refining quenching, tempering, normalizing, annealing
  • the thermal refining leads to a homogenous and fine microstructure.
  • soft-nitriding is performed mainly for the purpose of enhancing fatigue resistance.
  • the soft-nitriding causes distortion, which impairs the dimensional accuracy of the parts, therefore, bending straightening is frequently performed after the soft-nitriding. Therefore, the parts after soft nitriding require an excellent bending straightening property in addition to high fatigue resistance.
  • excellent bending straightening property means that the parts never crack up on the surface even to an extent of large bending displacement.
  • the parts after soft-nitriding are required to be excellent in bending straightening property as described above, omission of the thermal refining frequently results in a remarkably inferior bending straightening property of the parts after soft-nitriding due to the above-mentioned coarse-grained microstructure and/or nonuniform microstructure.
  • thermal refining "normalizing", that is a typical thermal refining, will be explained as a representative case in the following.
  • Some methods have been proposed so far in order to obtain a non-heat treated steel for soft nitriding that can form parts with high fatigue strength and excellent "bending straightening property" after nitriding even if the thermal refining is omitted. These are roughly classified into two methods described below.
  • Patent Document 1 discloses "a nitrided steel, having contents of alloy elements of, by mass%, C: 0.15 to 0.40%, Si: 0.50% or less, Mn: 0.20 to 1.50%, Cr: 0.05 to 0.50%, and the balance Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the microstructure after hot working is a ferrite-pearlite microstructure, the ferrite area fraction is 30% or more, the ferrite grain size number is not less than No. 5, and has the average dimension of pearlite is 50 ⁇ m or less". It is described that this steel is excellent in fatigue strength and bending straightening property after nitriding even if normalizing is omitted.
  • Patent Document 2 discloses "nitrided parts obtained by nitriding a steel, the steel comprising, by mass%, C: 0.15 to 0.40%, Si: not more than 0.50%, Mn: 0.20 to 1.50%, Cr: 0.05 to 0.50%, and the balance Fe and inevitable impurities, and the steel having a mixed microstructure of ferrite and pearlite as hot forged, in which the average dimension of grain of the ferrite is 50 ⁇ m or less, the average dimension of grain of the pearlite is 50 ⁇ m or less, the average hardening depth by the nitriding is 0.3 mm or more, and the fluctuation of the hardening depth is 0.1 mm or less". It is described that these parts are excellent in fatigue strength and bending straightening property after nitrided even if the normalizing after hot forging is omitted.
  • Patent Document 3 discloses "a steel product for soft nitriding, having a chemical composition comprising, by mass%, C: 0.20 to 0.60%, Si: 0.05 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.3 to 1.0%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.005 to 0.10%, Cr: 0.3% or less, Al: 0.08% or less, Ti: 0.03% or less, N: 0.008 to 0.020%, Ca: 0.005% or less, Pb: 0.30% or less, Cu: 0.30% or less, Ni: 0.30% or less, Mo: 0.30% or less, V: 0.20% or less, Nb: 0.05% or less, with satisfaction of an inequality of 221C(%) + 99.5Mn(%) + 52.5Cr(%) - 304Ti(%) + 577N(%) + 25 ⁇ 150, and the balance Fe and inevitable impurities, and the steel having a mixed microstructure of ferrite and pearlite whose ferrite fraction is 10% or more".
  • Patent Document 3 It is described in the following Patent Document 3 that without normalizing nitrided parts excellent in fatigue strength and bending straightening property can be obtained, when the fatigue strength, which is expressed in the form of a regression equation of alloy chemistries, is not less than a specified magnitude and the microstructure is composed of ferrite and pearlite with a ferrite fraction of 10% or more.
  • Patent Document 4 discloses "a steel for nitriding, having a chemical composition comprising, by weight%, C: 0.30 to 0.43%, Si: 0.05 to 0.40%, Mn: 0.20 to 0.60%, P: 0.08% or less, S: 0.10% or less, sol. Al: 0.010% or less, Ti: 0.013% or less, Ca: 0.0030% or less, Pb: 0.20% or less, N: 0.010 to 0.030%, and the balance Fe and impurities, the content of Cr in the impurities being restricted to 0.10% or less and the content of V in the impurities being restricted to 0.01% or less".
  • Patent Document 4 It is described in the following Patent Document 4 that nitriding without prior normalizing can obtain a product excellent in fatigue strength and bending straightening property by making the hardness gradient in a nitrided layer moderate.
  • Patent Document 5 discloses "a steel for structural use with a high fatigue strength that have a chemical composition comprising C: 0.1 to 0.35%, Si: 0.05 to 0.35%, Mn: 0.6 to 1.50%, P: 0.01% or less, S: 0.015% or less, Cr: 1.1 to 2.0%, Mo: 0.5 to 1.0%, V: 0.03 to 0.13%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0030%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.04%, Al: 0.01 to 0.04%, and the balance Fe and inevitable impurities".
  • Patent Document 5 It is described in the following Patent Document 5 that Cr is effective for improving the hardenability and nitriding-hardening property and that V is effective for enhancing the fatigue strength by refining carbide precipitates. Cr and V improve the fatigue strength based on the precipitation hardening because the improved nitriding-hardening property by Cr is based on precipitation of the Cr nitrides. However, since a steel product once manufactured is reheated and cooled in order to obtain the bainite microstructure, this steel is contained in the category of heat-treated steel.
  • Patent Document 6 discloses "a non-heat treated steel for soft-nitriding, having a chemical composition comprising, by mass%, C: 0.1 to less than 0.3%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 1.5 to 3.0%, Cr: 0.01 to 0.5%, Mo: 0.1 to 1.0%, acid-soluble Al: 0.01 to 0.045%, N: 0.005 to 0.025%, and the balance Fe and inevitable impurities", and the like.
  • Patent Document 6 It is described in the following Patent Document 6 that a steel having a bainite microstructure, which is obtained by air-cooling from a hot working temperature, has an excellent toughness and bending straightening property after it is subjected to soft-nitriding.
  • the concentration of C is restricted to less than 0.3% so that the machinability is not impaired by an excessively increased hardness of bainite, and the concentration of Mn is prescribed to 1.5% or more for ensuring the hardenability of steel for generating the bainite.
  • the hardness of the nitrided layer is enhanced by precipitation hardening of Cr nitrides by adding 0.01 to 0.05% of Cr.
  • the reason for the improved bending straightening property due to the bainite microstructure is in the fact that a bainite microstructure has a higher toughness than that of a ferrite-pearlite microstructure when these two microstructures have the same hardness.
  • the concentration of C is restricted to less than 0.3% so that the hardness of bainite is not excessively increased.
  • a carbon concentration of less than 0.3% might adversely affect the wear resistance, which is also a very important factor for machinery parts such as a crankshaft and a connecting rod.
  • Patent Document 7 discloses "a steel for soft nitriding, having a chemical composition comprising, by weight %, C: 0.05 to 0.30%, Si: 1.20% or less, Mn: 0.60 to 1.30%, Cr: 0.70 to 1.50%, Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.006 to 0.020%, V: 0.05 to 0.20%, Mo: 0 to 1.00%, B: 0 to 0.0050%, S: 0 to 0.060%, Pb: 0 to 0.20%, Ca: 0 to 0.010%, with satisfaction of an inequality of 0.60 ⁇ C+0.1Si+0.2Mn+0.25Cr+1.65V ⁇ 1.35 or an inequality of 0.60 ⁇ C+0.1Si+0.2Mn+0.25Cr+1.65V+0.55Mo+8B ⁇ 1.35, and the balance Fe and inevitable impurities, with a core part hardness of 200 to 300 Hv and a fully bainitic microstructure of a mixed microstructure of "ferrite + bainite" whose
  • Patent Document 7 adopts the idea of improving the fatigue strength by using precipitation hardening by Cr and V, similar to the following Patent Document 5. However, it might negatively affect the wear resistance because the concentration of C is restricted to less than 0.3%, similar to the following Patent Document 6.
  • Patent Document 8 discloses "a steel for soft nitriding, having a chemical composition comprising, by weight %, C: 0.15 to 0.40%, Si: 1.20% or less, Mn: 0.60 to 1.80%, C: 0.20 to 2.00%, Al: 0.02 to 0.10%, N: 0.006 to 0.020%, V: 0.05 to 0.20%, and the balance Fe and inevitable impurities, with satisfaction of inequalities of 0.60 ⁇ C + O.lSi + 0.2Mn + 0.25Cr + 1.65V ⁇ 1.35 and 0.25Cr + 2V ⁇ 0.85, with a core part hardness of 200 to 300 Hv and a mixed microstructure of "ferrite + pearlite” or a mixed microstructure "ferrite + pearlite (+ bainite)” whose bainite fraction is less than 20%, without heat treatment, by being cooled after hot rolling or after hot forging, and the steel having high surface hardness, large hardening depth, and low thermal distortion after further soft-nitrided
  • Patent Document 8 The steel of the following Patent Document 8 is supposed to have an improved wear resistance because the concentration of C is 0.15 to 0.40%.
  • the invention adopts the idea of improving the fatigue strength by precipitation hardening by Cr and V, similar to the invention of the following Patent Document 7.
  • Patent Document 9 it is described in the following Patent Document 9 that, for the steel for nitriding, a ferrite-oiented microstructure is the most favorable, and a single-phase microstructure of martensite or bainite is more desirable than a ferrite + pearlite mixed microstructure if the ferrite-oriented microstructure is difficult to obtain.
  • the idea of using precipitation hardening by Cu is alternatively adapted although the precipitation hardening by Cr and V is avoided.
  • the concentration of Mn must be 1.0% or more for ensuring a bainite single-phase microstructure, which means that a non-heat treated steel of bainite single phase is recommended.
  • a soft-nitriding method for shortening the time for forming a compound layer (refer to the following Patent Document 10), a soft-nitriding method for enhancing the corrosion resistance of a compound layer (refer to the following Patent Document 11), and a soft-nitriding method for enhancing the dent resistance (refer to the following Patent Document 12) are disclosed, while no soft-nitriding method for improving the fatigue strength or bending straightening property has been examined.
  • Patent Document 12 discloses a soft-nitriding method for enhancing the wear resistance and the dent resistance of the machinery parts by further performing, after soft-nitriding, a heat treatment which comprises a reheating to an austenite temperature range followed by a rapid cooling, thereby turning a diffusion layer and a base metal into martensitic structure, and then performing tempering again.
  • a heat treatment which comprises a reheating to an austenite temperature range followed by a rapid cooling, thereby turning a diffusion layer and a base metal into martensitic structure, and then performing tempering again.
  • gas soft-nitriding is performed at a standard temperature range (570 to 580°C).
  • Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. H9-291339
  • Patent Document 2 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. H9-324258
  • Patent Document 3 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. H 9-324241
  • Patent Document 4 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. H10-46287
  • Patent Document 5 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. H5-65592
  • Patent Document 6 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. 2000-309846
  • Patent Document 7 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. H7-157842
  • Patent Document 8 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. H 8-176733
  • Patent Document 9 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. 2000-160287
  • Patent Document 10 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. 2003-253420
  • Patent Document 11 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. 2002-302756
  • Patent Document 12 Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. H11-269631
  • This prior invention is a non-heat treated steel for soft-nitriding, which can form parts having high fatigue strength and excellent bending straightening property even if it is soft-nitrided without thermal refining.
  • This prior invention is related to "a non-heat treated steel for soft-nitriding, comprising, by mass %, C: 0.30 to 0.45%, Si: 0.1 to 0.5%, Mn: 0.6 to 1.0%, Ti: 0.005 to 0.1%, N: 0.015 to 0.030%, and the balance Fe and impurities, the steel having a mixed microstructure of bainite and ferrite or a mixed microstructure of bainite, ferrite and pearlite with the bainite fraction in the mixed microstructure of 5 to 90%.
  • This steel may further contain one or more element(s) selected from Nb: 0.003 to 0.1%, Mo: 0.01 to 1.0%, Cu: 0.01 to 1.0%, Ni: 0.01 to 1.0%, B: 0.001 to 0.005%, S: 0.01 to 0.1%, and Ca: 0.0001 to 0.005%.
  • the present inventors have continuously investigated these issues after the above application. As a result, it has been found that the fatigue strength and bending straightening property of the parts after soft-nitriding can be further improved by adjusting the cooling rate in the soft-nitriding, and the following knowledge was obtained as a result of further examinations.
  • the present invention has been completed based on the above-mentioned knowledge.
  • the present invention involves the following soft-nitrided parts made of non-heat treated steel.
  • Soft-nitrided parts wherein a ferrite grain in the diffusion layer does not have a ⁇ ' nitride of more than 20 ⁇ m in the longitudinal axis, which is made of a non-heat treated steel that has a chemical composition of, by mass %, C:0.30 to 0.45%, Si:0.1 to 0.5%, Mn:0.6 to 1.0%, Ti:0.005 to 0.1%, N:0.010 to 0.030%, and either or both of one or more elements selected from the first group mentioned below and one or more elements selected from the second group mentioned below, and the balance Fe and impurities, and that has a mixed microstructure of bainite and ferrite whose bainite fraction is 5 to 90% or a mixed microstructure of bainite, ferrite and pearlite whose bainite fraction is 5 to 90%.
  • the diffusion layer means a region that recognizes a diffusion of nitrogen and/or carbon near the surface of nitrided parts except the topmost compound layer, as defined by JIS (Japan Industrial Standard) G0562.
  • a " ⁇ ' nitride” means a ⁇ '-Fe 4 N, as stated above.
  • high-strength soft-nitrided parts excellent in fatigue strength and bending straightening property can be obtained from a non-heat treated steel. Accordingly, the cost manufacturing parts can be reduced.
  • the bainite fraction In the above mixed microstructure, the bainite fraction must be 5% or more. In order to ensure the hardenability in which bainite of this fraction is formed, a content of Mn of 0.6% or more is needed. On the other hand, if the content of Mn exceeds 1.0%, the hardenability excessively increases, easily causing harmful martensite. Therefore, the proper range of the Mn content is 0.6 to 1.0%.
  • One of the non-heat treated steels for soft nitriding that are used as the steel materials of the soft-nitrided parts of the present invention contains the balance Fe and impurities in addition to the above-mentioned elements.
  • Another one of non-heat treated steels for soft nitriding which are used as the steel materials of the soft-nitrided parts of the present invention contains, in addition to the above-mentioned elements, either or both of one or more elements selected from the above-mentioned first group and one or more element selected from the above-mentioned second group, and the balance Fe and impurities.
  • the elements, Nb, Mo, Cu, Ni and B, belonging to the first group have the common effect of enhancing the strength of the steels of the present invention.
  • the respective effects and the reasons for limiting the contents are as follows.
  • Cu and Ni do not form carbonitrides effective for precipitation strengthening
  • Cu itself can contribute to precipitation strengthening by precipitating in ferrites during aging.
  • a general soft-nitriding treatment with a temperature of about 580°C and treatment time of about several hours is regarded as an aging treatment
  • a content of Cu of 1.0% or more is needed for causing sufficient age hardening by Cu.
  • the melting point of Cu is as low as 1085°C
  • Cu remains in a liquid phase in the course of solidification in the steel making process for an extended period of time, and thus segregates to the grain boundary, inducing hot cracking.
  • the upper limit of the Cu content is set to 1.0% in the steel of the present invention.
  • Ni is an austenite-stabilizing element, similar to Cu, and effective for ensuring solid solution strengthening and a desirable bainite fraction. Therefore, Ni is desirably included in a content of 0.01% or more. On the other hand, since the inclusion of a content exceeding 1.0% only results in saturation of the effect and incurs unnecessary high material cost, the upper limit is set to 1.0%. In the addition of Ni together with Cu, the Ni content is desirably set to not less than the half of the Cu content in order to ensure the effect of preventing the hot cracking.
  • the elements, S and Ca, of the second group improve the machinability of non-heat treated steels for soft-nitriding used as steel materials of the soft-nitrided parts of the present invention.
  • the reason for limiting the respective contents is as follows.
  • P is preferably set to 0.05% or less since it segregates to the grain boundary to cause intercrystalline embrittlement cracking.
  • Al is generally added in steel making process as deoxidizer.
  • Al remains as alumina particles in steel and/or is combined with N to form AlN.
  • the alumina is an oxide-based inclusion with high hardness, which shortens the tool life used for machining.
  • the AlN remarkably increases the hardness of a surface layer in soft-nitriding by their precipitation in the vicinity of the surface or promoting the growth of the compound layer at the surface, which results in the deteriorating bending straightening property.
  • the AlN cannot be expected to have the function as the pinning particles, since they dissolve at a hot working temperature, and is hardly useful for the grain-refinement. Therefore, a lower content of Al is more preferable.
  • the Al content is preferably set at 0.05% or less, which never disturbs the bending straightening property of the soft-nitrided parts of the present invention.
  • Neither Cr nor V is added to the steels of the present invention. These elements are impurities, and smaller contents are more preferable. Because Cr and V remarkably increase the hardness of the near-surface layer of the steel by precipitation of nitrides, which impairs the bending straightening property, as described above. From the view point of the purity of steel materials and the refining cost in a steel manufacturing, a Cr content of up to 0.15% is allowable as impurities and a V content of up to 0.02%is allowable as impurities, respectively. Cr is more desirably set to 0.1% or less.
  • the non-heat treated steels for soft-nitriding for the soft-nitrided parts according to the present invention has a mixed microstructure of bainite and ferrite or a mixed microstructure of bainite, ferrite and pearlite.
  • the bainite fraction in these mixed microstructures is 5 to 90%.
  • a martensite microstructure can be avoided by exploiting a bainite transformation, and leads to a finer microstructure than that composed of coarse pearlite colonies.
  • the bainite microstructure is composed of bamboo leaf-like ferrites (bainitic ferrites) as shown in Fig. 1 and carbides.
  • the bainitic ferrites which are dispersed within the former austenite grain, are smaller than the pro-eutectoid ferrites (polygonal ferrites) developed from the former austenite grain boundaries.
  • this bainite has "a microstructure that has relatively fine ferrites (bainitic ferrites) dispersed in a pearlite colony although the shape is bamboo leaf-like", and the pearlite colony with these bainitic ferrites dispersed therein has a relatively irregular lamellar microstructure, compared with a perfect pearlite colony free from these bainitic ferrites.
  • Fig. 2 is a SEM image of a former austenite grain in which the bainitic ferrites are dispersed.
  • a ferrite/cementite lamellar in the pearlite colony does not have a well-ordered microstructure, in which irregularities are observed in many positions.
  • This lamellar microstructure has lower strength than the one in which the former austenite grain is entirely transformed to pearlite, but it has a better crack propagation resistance than the coarse pearlite colony, because bending of crack path and/or plastic deformation at a crack tip occur in the bainitic ferrite.
  • the bainite fraction of not less than 5% by area fraction can lead to maintaining the high crack propagation resistance due to a mixed microstructure with bainite although it might slightly be coarse-grained.
  • the bainite fraction of 100% can be permitted, it might not be obtained in reality because a mixed microstructure with martensite must develop when the bainite fraction exceeds 90%. Since martensite deteriorates the bending strengthening property and impairs the machinability, a mixed microstructure with an excessive martensite is not preferable. Therefore, the bainite fraction in the mixed microstructure is 5 to 90%. A more desirable bainite fraction is 10 to 80%.
  • the microstructure other than bainite is essentially ferrite or ferrite and pearlite.
  • microstructure of non-heat treated steels for soft-nitriding that are used for the soft-nitrided parts according to the present invention can be obtained, for example, by the following method.
  • the steel materials for hot forging that have a defined chemical composition are prepared as any one of the followings: a billet obtained by blooming and rolling an ingot, a billet obtained by blooming and rolling a continuous cast material, and bar steels obtained by hot rolling these billets.
  • the heating temperature of the steel materials for hot forging is set to 1100 to 1250°C.
  • an air-cooling in the atmosphere is performed or forced air-cooling using a fan is performed.
  • the steel materials may be cooled rapidly up to the vicinity of an eutectoid transformation temperature and then slowly cooled in the temperature range of 700 to 500°C, or may be immediately cooled to about 500 to 300°C just after hot forging, and held at this temperature, in order to promote the bainite transformation.
  • the adjustment of the cooling rate can be performed by making continuous cooling transformation diagrams (CTT curve) in advance, determining the cooling rate range passing the bainite transformation area, and adjusting the cooling rate at the production to the pre-determined cooling rate range.
  • a rod-shaped ⁇ ' nitride in ferrite grains of the diffusion layer of the soft-nitrided parts of the present invention is of 20 ⁇ m or less in the longitudinal axis.
  • the strength of the ferrite grain decreases, causing a reduction in fatigue strength.
  • the ⁇ ' nitride has a rod-shaped shape and grows so as to extend from the ferrite grain boundary into the ferrite grain interior, the ⁇ ' nitride is distributed in a state where it transversely crosses the inside of the ferrite grain when extensively grown. The strength is reduced in the vicinity of the ⁇ ' nitride because of the remarkably reduced dissolved nitrogen concentration therein.
  • the long rod-shaped ⁇ ' nitride is dispersed transversely in the ferrite grain cracks penetrating in the ferrite grain easily propagates along the ⁇ ' nitride/ferrite interface, deteriorating the crack propagation resistance.
  • the precipitation of the ⁇ ' nitride facilitates a fatigue rupture since the crack propagation resistance is locally decreased in the vicinity of the ⁇ ' nitride in addition to the reduction of its own average strength of the ferrite grain by the precipitation of ⁇ ' nitride. Therefore, the precipitation of ⁇ ' nitride and its growth are to be suppressed.
  • the reason for restricting the longitudinal size of the rod-shaped ⁇ ' nitride to 20 ⁇ m or less is explained as follows.
  • the ferrite grains in non-heat treated steels that are steel materials for the soft-nitrided parts of the present invention have grain sizes of about 10 to 50 ⁇ m. Therefore, the length of each rod-shaped ⁇ ' nitride must be controlled to not more than the half of the ferrite grain size in order to avoid the coalescence of the rod-shaped ⁇ ' nitrides that grow from the opposite ferrite grain boundaries into the interior, otherwise the coalescent ⁇ ' nitrides behave as if one huge rod-shaped ⁇ ' nitride. Therefore, the longitudinal size of each rod-shaped ⁇ ' nitride inside the ferrite grain at the diffusion layer is restricted to 20 ⁇ m or less, desirably to 10 ⁇ m or less, and more desirably to 5 ⁇ m or less.
  • Gas soft-nitriding, salt-bath soft-nitriding (Tufftride treatment), ion nitriding and the like can be adapted for the soft-nitriding.
  • Each method can homogenously form a compound layer (nitride layer) about 20 ⁇ m thick on the surface of a product and a diffusion layer just underneath. If any soft-nitriding is adapted, it is necessary to control the longitudinal size of the ⁇ ' nitrides to 20 ⁇ m or less by suppressing the precipitation and growth of ⁇ ' nitrides.
  • the cooling process from the holding temperature of soft-nitriding to room temperature needs to be adjusted. The cooling process from the holding temperature of soft-nitriding will be illustrated by an example of a gas soft-nitriding.
  • the holding temperature is preferably set to 550 to 620°C.
  • a more desirable holding temperature is within the range between 580 and 600°C.
  • the thickness of the compound layer on the surface and the quantity of nitrogen that diffusively intrudes into the steel are determined according to the holding time (treatment time) at the holding temperature.
  • the holding time is preferably set at 30 minutes to 3 hours, more preferably set at 1 to 2 hours.
  • the nitrogen that diffusively intrudes forms only the compound layer with Fe on the surface, and then it dissolves in Fe matrix in the diffusion layer, without causing precipitation of Fe nitrides. If the cooling rate is decreased in the cooling process after isothermal holding, the nitrogen in the diffusion layer cannot be dissolved in the matrix, resulting in precipitation and growth of the ⁇ ' nitrides. If the cooling rate is increased enough, the nitrogen in the diffusion layer is kept in supersaturation in the matrix, resulting in the suppression of precipitation and growth of the ⁇ ' nitrides.
  • the precipitation of an ⁇ " nitride that is a metastable phase, occurs when the parts are held at 100 to 200°C for a long time after cooling. And it may cause the transformation of the a" nitride to ⁇ ' nitride when the parts are held at that temperature for a longer period of time after cooling.
  • the precipitation of such nitrides causes deterioration of fatigue strength, particularly, the ⁇ ' nitride has the salient effect of deteriorating the fatigue resistance.
  • the cooling rate in order to suppress the precipitation of ⁇ ' nitrides, it is effective to increase the cooling rate to 1.0°C /sec or more in the temperature range from the holding temperature to 200°C, at which temperature the precipitation of ⁇ ' nitrides does not occur.
  • the cooling rate is more desirably set to 1.5°C /sec or more.
  • oil quenching it is effective to ensure a high fatigue strength by being careful that the parts are not to be exposed in the temperature range between 100 and 200°C for a long time (more than 30 minutes) during the cooling process after soft-nitriding.
  • the followings are effective: one is to use a big oil tank having a large heat capacity enough to ensure sufficient heat extraction of treated parts, with an oil temperature set to 100°C or lower, the other is to reduce the number of parts to be treated at once.
  • oil cooling oil quenching
  • water cooling oil quenching
  • the cooling condition is adjusted by changing the oil temperature, or using various heat treatment oils differed in properties.
  • parts to be nitrided are not directly oil-quenched into the oil tank from the treatment atmosphere of RX gas and ammonia gas, but is first transferred from a heating furnace filled with the treatment atmosphere to a space filled with an inert gas, and then oil-quenched into the oil tank.
  • the cooling rate in the stage where the parts are carried to another space prior to oil-quenching must be increased, as well as the long-time immersion of the nitrided parts in a high-temperature oil tank must be avoided.
  • Part of the test pieces for microstructure observation was sectioned, and the as-hot forged microstructure was observed with an optical microscope with the magnification of 200 to measure a bainite fraction by area.
  • An area defined to be bainite comprised bamboo leaf-like bainitic ferrites that were surrounded by a continuous closed curve, and the bainite fraction was calculated from the percentage of the bainite area to the whole visual field area.
  • the bainite fraction of each steel specimen is also shown in Table 1.
  • the steel of No. 7 had a microstructure of ferrite and pearlite, and no bainite was observed.
  • the steel of No. 9 had a bainite fraction exceeding 90%, in which martensite was formed.
  • the remaining part of the test piece for microstructure observation was soft-nitrided together with the test piece for plane bending fatigue test, and the microstructure of the diffusion layer was observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to examine the size of ⁇ ' nitrides.
  • SEM scanning electron microscopy
  • the size of ⁇ ' nitrides is defined by a longitudinal size of the longest one of the ⁇ ' nitrides observed in 10 sheets of photographs that were taken with the magnification of 1000.
  • the stepped round bar specimen for the bending test has a 10mm-wide stepped portion in the center part with a diameter larger than that at the both ends, in which the diameter of the center part is 15 mm, the diameter of the mother body part is 10 mm, and the stepped portion has a corner R having a curvature radius of 2 mm.
  • a strain gauge is attached to the cured corner of the stepped portion, and a bending straightening test was performed in a manner similar to a three-point bending.
  • the bending straightening property was evaluated by a push-in stroke at which a disconnection of the strain gauge occurs in application of a load to the center portion of the bar.
  • a satisfactory bending straightening property was defined the one which did not cause the disconnection of strain gauge up to a push-in stroke of 3 mm.
  • the test piece for the plane bending fatigue test has a shape of a cylindrical body 44mm in diameter having a tapered neck part (neck part diameter of 20 mm). After this test piece was soft-nitrided, a plane bending fatigue test was carried out by fixing the heat side of the test piece and applying repetitive load to the opposite end part.
  • the isothermal holding temperature was 600°C, and the holding time was 2 hours.
  • the test piece that finished isothermal holding was once carried to another chamber which was separated from a nitriding chamber by a shutter and filled with nitrogen atmosphere, and then put into an oil tank installed to a lower part of the chamber of nitrogen atmosphere and oil-quenched. At this time, the degree of precipitation and growth of ⁇ ' nitrides was changed by varying the time before the test piece was put into the oil tank after carried to the chamber of nitrogen atmosphere.
  • the oil temperature of the oil tank was controlled to a predetermined temperature within the range between 80 and 150°C, and the holding time of the test piece in the oil tank after oil-quenching was set to a predetermined time within the range between 10 and 90 minutes.
  • the cooling rate in the cooling process was separately measured by a Pt-Rh thermocouple spot-welded to the surface of the test piece for the plane bending fatigue test in a state where the inside of the furnace was entirely filled with the nitrogen atmosphere, since the atmosphere of actual gas soft-nitriding (RX gas: ammonia gas) gave serious damage to the thermocouple. In the measurement, the care was taken to measure the variation of the temperature and the cooling rate during cooling before the test piece is put into the oil tank after it is carried from the nitriding chamber to the other chamber.
  • the size of ⁇ ' nitrides, the fatigue strength and the bending straightening property of each steel specimen are shown in Table 2.
  • the remarks illustrate the average cooling rate in the cooling process from the holding temperature in gas soft-nitriding and the holding time at not less than 100°C including the time kept in the oil tank after oil-quenching.
  • the present invention provides a satisfactory bending straightening property (bending stroke of 3 mm or more) and a high fatigue strength of not less than 550Mpa, which is classified to the category of high strength for a normalizing-free type.
  • the fatigue strength was reduced or the bending straightening property was inferior even if the size of ⁇ ' nitrides was not larger than 20 ⁇ m.
  • soft-nitrided steel parts excellent in fatigue strength and bending straightening property can be obtained by using non-heat treated steels. Therefore, the costs of manufacturing parts can be reduced.

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