An embodiment of the present invention provides a wire rod and a method of manufacturing same. The wire rod comprises, by weight %, 0.3-0.5 wt % of C, 0.02-0.4 wt % of Si, 1.0-1.5 wt % of Mn, 0.3-0.7 wt % of Cr, 0.003 wt % or less (exclusive of 0 wt %) of B, less than 0.03 wt % (exclusive of 0 wt %) of Ti, 0.03 wt % or less (inclusive of 0 wt %) of P, 0.01 wt % or less (inclusive of 0 wt %) of S, 0.02-0.05 wt % of Al, 0.001-0.01 wt % of N, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a microstructure is a complex structure having a main phase of ferrite+pearlite, with at least one of bainite or martensite accounting for 5 area % or less (inclusive of 0%), and has a cementite average aspect ratio of 35 or less in an area covering ⅖-⅗ of the diameter.

A method for producing an austempered steel is provided. The method includes subjecting a steel alloy having a silicon content of 1.5 to 4.4 weight percent and a carbon content of 0.3 to 0.8 weight percent to continuous cooling followed by annealing. The cooling rate is initially sufficiently fast to prevent predominant formation of proeutectoid ferrite or pearlite, while subsequently at intermediate temperatures, the cooling rate is sufficiently slow to allow a transformation of the austenite to mainly ausferrite during cooling. The annealing is able to complete the transformation of carbon enriched austenite to ausferrite and to temper any martensite previously formed. The method results in the cost-efficient production of one or more continuously cooled and annealed austempered steel components or semi-finished products having mainly an ausferritic microstructure.

A method of making a soft magnetic intermediate product of metal with particularly good magnetization behavior, the method comprising the following method steps: production or provision of a metallic, rollable blank of a metallic product, preliminary rolling of the metallic blank with a defined degree of deformation to an intermediate thickness, the degree of deformation being matched to a critical or postcritical degree of rolling to be observed during subsequent rolling, heat treatment of the prerolled blank, preferably annealing of the prerolled blank, rolling of the blank with a critical or postcritical degree of rolling to a final thickness and subsequent annealing to set a defined grain size and finishing of the intermediate product.

A method of making a soft magnetic intermediate product of metal with particularly good magnetization behavior, the method comprising the following method steps: production or provision of a metallic, rollable blank of a metallic product, preliminary rolling of the metallic blank with a defined degree of deformation to an intermediate thickness, the degree of deformation being matched to a critical or postcritical degree of rolling to be observed during subsequent rolling, heat treatment of the prerolled blank, preferably annealing of the prerolled blank, rolling of the blank with a critical or postcritical degree of rolling to a final thickness and subsequent annealing to set a defined grain size and finishing of the intermediate product.

Provided are a non-heat treated wire rod having high drawability and impact toughness, and a method for manufacturing the non-heat treated wire rod. The non-heat treated wire rod includes, by wt%, C: 0.02% to 0.30%, Si: 0.05% to 0.8%, Mn: 0.5% to 2.0%, Cr: 1.0% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.03% or less, sol.Al: 0.01% to 0.07%, N: from greater than 0.01% to 0.02%, Nb: 0.1% or less, V: 0.5% or less, and Ti: 0.1% or less, and a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the non-heat treated wire rod has a microstructure including ferrite and pearlite.

Disclosed is a bearing wire rod includes, in percent by weight (wt %), 0.8 to 1.2% of C, 0.01 to 0.6% of Si, 0.1 to 0.6% of Mn, 1.0 to 2.0% of Cr, 0.01 to 0.06% of Al, 0.02% or less (exclusive of 0) of N, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a prior austenite grain size of a microstructure is from 3 to 10 μm, and a sum of lengths of high angle grain boundaries having a misorientation angle of 15° or more per unit area is from 1,000 to 4,000 mm/mm.sup.2.

Disclosed are a wire rod and a component, for cold forging, each having excellent delayed fracture resistance characteristics and applicable to high-strength bolts and the like and a manufacturing method therefor.

According to an embodiment, a heat-treated component having excellent delayed fracture resistance characteristics includes, in percent by weight (wt %), 0.3 to 0.5% of C, 0.01 to 0.3% of Si, 0.3 to 1.0% of Mn, at least two types selected from the group consisting of 0.3 to 1.5% of Cr, 0.3 to 1.5% of Mo, and 0.01 to 0.4% of V, and the balance being Fe and other impurities, includes, as a microstructure, a tempered martensite phase in an area fraction of 95% or more, and includes V-based carbides having a diameter of 300 nm or less at 10/100 μm.sup.2 or more.

The present invention relates to an additive manufacturing wire, containing, in terms of % by mass, 0%<Si≤2.0%, 0%<Mn≤6.0%, 3.0%≤Ni≤15.0%, 20.0%≤Cr≤30.0%, 1.0%≤Mo≤5.0%, 0%<N≤0.50%, with a balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which C≤0.10% is satisfied, and 27<A<67 is satisfied, when Cr.sub.eq is defined as Cr+Mo+1.5Si+0.5(Nb+W)+2(Ti+Al), Ni.sub.eq is defined as Ni+30C+20N+0.5(Mn+Cu+Co), and A is defined as −16.2+6.3Cr.sub.eq−9.3Ni.sub.eq, here, in the definition of Cr.sub.eq and Ni.sub.eq, each element symbol indicates a content of the each element in units of % by mass.

The disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a biocompatible wire, a biocompatible wire comprising a biocompatible metallic material and a medical device comprising such wire. The method for manufacturing a biocompatible wire comprises providing a workpiece of a biocompatible metallic material, cold working the workpiece into a wire, and annealing the wire, wherein a cold work percentage is 97 to 99%, wherein the cold working is a drawing with a die reduction per pass ratio in a range of 6 to 40%, and wherein the annealing is done in a range of 850 to 1100° C.

A device for removing foreign matter from a roll surface. The device includes a blast processing unit and a press unit. The blast processing unit includes an ejection unit configured to eject a projectile material at a surface of a roll that conveys a steel strip inside a heating furnace, and a recovery unit configured to recover the projectile material. The press unit is configured to press the blast processing unit toward the surface of the roll.