16 Types of Stainless Steel Wire
Wire, commonly crafted from standard and high-quality carbon steel, boast diverse classifications and applications. This article delves into 16 types of stainless steel wire. The spectrum of wire rods encompasses plain mild steel hot-rolled round coils, premium carbon steel coils, carbon welding rod coils, tempered threaded coils, coils designed for wire ropes, piano wire coils, and stainless steel coils. These wires stand as vital components in their respective sectors, addressing a multitude of specific needs.
Ordinary low carbon steel hot rolled wire coil (GB701-65 standard)
An essential player in the wire rod sector, ordinary low-carbon steel hot-rolled wire in round coil is renowned for its extensive applications and widespread use. This coil, meticulously formed through the hot rolling process using low carbon structural steel or carbon structural steel with a low yield point, is affectionately known as ‘plain wire’ in the construction industry. Its role as an ideal reinforcement material in reinforced concrete structures is pivotal.
The versatility of plain wire extends beyond construction, showcasing an impressive array of applications. In reinforced concrete structures, this wire effectively enhances the tensile strength of concrete, thereby elevating the stability and durability of the overall structure. Furthermore, the cold-drawing and drawing process allows plain wire to be transformed into various specifications of steel wire. These steel wires play vital roles in construction, agriculture, packaging, and other fields, contributing significantly to bundling, securing, and more.
Ordinary low-carbon steel twist-free controlled-cold/hot-rolled wire
Ordinary low-carbon steel twist-free controlled-cold/hot-rolled wire in coil adheres to the ZBH4403-88 standard, manufactured through a twist-free high-speed wire rod rolling mill and controlled cooling process. This type of coil, akin to regular wire rods in material, exhibits superior dimensional precision, excellent surface quality, and outstanding mechanical performance.
The dimensional precision of the twist-free controlled-cooling, hot-rolled coil is categorized into three levels: A, B, and C, suitable for a variety of industries. Grade A and B precision coils find applications in wire drawing, construction, and packaging, while Grade B and C precision coils are ideal for producing fasteners such as bolts, screws, and nuts.
The exceptional performance of this coil is attributed to advanced rolling technology and stringent quality control. The twist-free rolling process ensures that the coil remains untwisted during rolling, enhancing its straightness and surface smoothness. The controlled cooling process further boosts the coil’s mechanical properties, endowing it with higher hardness and superior corrosion resistance.
Due to its high quality and diverse applications, ordinary low-carbon steel twist-free controlled-cooling, hot-rolled wire coil has become an integral part of modern manufacturing. It holds promising prospects, particularly in the fields of construction, packaging, and fastener production.
High-quality carbon steel wire
High-quality carbon steel wire rod adheres to the GB4354-84 standard and is meticulously rolled from premium carbon structural steel.
Renowned for its outstanding mechanical performance and stable chemical composition, high-quality carbon steel wire rod is widely employed in the manufacturing of high-precision and high-strength steel. In the realm of spring production, this wire rod, subject to appropriate heat treatment, can be processed into carbon spring steel wire, meeting the demands of various high-performance applications. Moreover, it serves as a crucial raw material for oil-quenched and tempered carbon spring steel wire, prestressed steel wire, and high-strength premium carbon structural steel wire.
Beyond its applications in spring manufacturing, high-quality carbon steel wire rod is also extensively utilized in areas such as galvanized steel wire and galvanized stranded wire ropes. These products play a vital role in sectors like construction, transportation, power, and communication.
High-quality carbon steel twist-free controlled-cold/hot-rolled wire
High-quality carbon steel twist-free controlled-cold/hot-rolled wire coil (ZBH44002-88) is produced through a twist-free high-speed wire rod rolling mill, followed by controlled cooling treatment. Compared to high-quality carbon steel wire rod, it boasts superior dimensional precision, excellent surface quality, and higher mechanical performance.
Primary Applications: The main applications are similar to those of high-quality carbon steel wire rod. It is commonly used in the manufacturing of carbon spring steel wire, oil-quenched and tempered carbon spring steel wire, prestressed steel wire, high-strength premium carbon structural steel wire, galvanized steel wire, and more.
Wire rope making wire
Wire rope making wire rod (YB349-64) is one of the hot-rolled round wire rods made from high-quality carbon structural steel.
Primary Application: Wire rope making wire rod can be manufactured using high-quality carbon structural steel of grades 35, 40, 45, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, and 85. Its chemical composition complies with the specifications of GB699 (Technical Conditions for High-Quality Carbon Structural Steel).
Carbon electrode steel wire disc (GB3429-82)
Carbon electrode steel wire disc (GB3429-82)
Carbon welding electrode steel disc wire is made of low carbon high quality carbon structural steel hot rolled.
Main uses: mainly used for the manufacture of manual electric arc welding cored.
Carbon electrode steel non-twisted controlled cold/hot rolled wire coil (ZBH44005-88)
Carbon Welding Rod Steel Non-Twisted Controlled Cold and Hot Rolled Wire Coil is made by rolling on blocking twisted wire rod mill and controlled cooling after rolling. It has high dimensional accuracy, good surface quality, and superior performance, and is a high-quality welding rod steel coil.
Main uses: mainly used in the manufacture of carbon steel hot rolled disc rod with flux skin of electrode steel core.
Coil for piano wire (GB4355-84)
Coil for piano wire by the grade 60, 60Mn, 65, 65Mn, 70, 70Mn, 75, 75Mn, 80, T8MnA, T9A of high-quality carbon structural steel material rolled from.
Main uses: piano wire coil is mainly used for drawing piano wire, oil quenching and tempering valve steel wire.
Alloy structural steel hot rolled wire coil (GB3077-82)
Alloy structural steel hot rolled wire coil is rolled from alloy structural steel as material. Alloy structural steel has 26 steel groups, 78 steel grades. Each production factory according to the requirements of the demand side and different uses choose the grade for production.
Main applications: Alloy structural steel hot rolled coil is mainly used for drawing steel wire, metal products and structural parts.
Twist-free controlled-cold/hot-rolled wire for wire rope making
Twist-free controlled-cold/hot-rolled wire for wire rope making (ZBH44004-88) is crafted from high-quality carbon structural steel through a twist-free wire rod rolling mill and controlled cooling process. This method ensures the resulting wire coil boasts high dimensional precision, excellent surface quality, and superior mechanical performance.
Primary Application: Primarily used for drawing wire rope making wires and stranded steel wire ropes.
Alloy tool steel hot rolled wire (GB1299-77)
Alloy tool steel is in the carbon tool steel matrix by adding chromium, tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, silicon, manganese, nickel, cobalt, and other alloying elements and refined steel. Compared with carbon tool steel. It has good hardenability, heat treatment cracking tendency is small, wear resistance and heat resistance is high. Alloy tool steel hot rolled wire coil by 5 steel group 33 steel number of alloy tool steel as material rolled and become.
Main applications: suitable for gauges, cutting tools, cold and hot work molds, impact-resistant tools, etc..
Spring steel hot rolled wire (GB1222-84)
Spring steel is used in the manufacture of springs or other elastic components of the steel. Springs and elastic components mainly use their elastic properties to absorb and store energy, to ease the vibration, and shock, or to make the machine complete some action for the purpose. Because it is in the impact, vibration, or long-term uniform cyclic alternating stress conditions, so the requirements of the spring steel have a high yield strength, especially to have a high yield strength ratio (yield strength and tensile strength ratio) and elasticity of high fatigue strength, high temperature and corrosion resistance and other properties. Spring steel should also have good surface quality. Spring steel has carbon spring steel and alloy spring steel two categories of a total of 17 grades.
Main uses: spring steel hot rolled coils are mainly used in the production of coil springs for various purposes.
Ball Bearing Steel Hot Rolled Wire (YB9-68)
Ball bearing steel, referred to as bearing steel, is used to manufacture various types of rolling bearing rings (bushings) and rolling bodies (balls) of steel. Due to the specificity of its use, bearing steel is required to have high and uniform hardness and wear resistance, high elasticity and fatigue strength. Sufficient toughness and hardenability, while in the atmospheric environment or lubricants with a certain corrosion resistance. Some special-purpose rolling bearings are also required to have high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, non-magnetic, ultra-low temperature, high precision, long life and other properties. Therefore, the selection of bearing steel and steel quality requirements than the general steel strict.
Bearing steel usually refers to high-carbon chromium steel, in addition to carburised bearing steel, high-carbon chromium stainless bearing steel.
There are 5 steel grades generally used for rolling hot rolled coils of ball-bearing steel.
Main uses: Ball-bearing steel hot rolled coil is mainly used for manufacturing steel balls (steel balls) for bearings and so on.
Stainless steel wire (GB4356-84)
Stainless steel wire is hot rolled from a variety of grades of stainless steel with different organizational patterns. Main use: stainless steel wire is mainly used for the manufacture of stainless steel wire, stainless steel spring steel wire, and stainless steel wire rope.
Main use: The stainless steel wire coil is mainly used in the manufacture of stainless steel wire, stainless spring steel wire, stainless top forging steel wire, and stainless steel wire rope with steel wire.
Stainless steel wire for welding (GB4241-84)
Stainless steel wire for welding is different from general stainless steel coil in chemical composition. To ensure its excellent welding performance and improve the quality of the weld, welding stainless steel wire in the composition of the salient features are low carbon content, phosphorus, sulfur, and other toxic impurities, and nickel, and chromium content is higher.
Main uses: mainly used in the manufacture of electrode steel core and welding wire.
This article summarizes the main types and applications of wire rods, including common low-carbon steel hot-rolled round coils, twist-free controlled cold and hot-rolled coils, high-quality carbon steel coils, carbon welding rod coils, and coils for rope making. Each type of wire rod has unique materials and applications, spanning various industries from construction to rope making and welding.
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