The invention discloses steel for a bearing ring of a large-size
shield tunneling machine and a heat treatment method thereof. The steel consists of the following elements in percentage by weight: 0.41-0.45 percent of C, 0.17-0.37 percent of Si, 0.60-0.80 percent of Mn, 0.90-1.20 percent of Cr, 0.15-0.25 percent of Mo, 0.50-0.70 percent of Ni, less than or equal to 0.015 percent of P, less than or equal to 0.003 percent of S, less than or equal to 0.00018 percent of H, less than or equal to 0.0015 percent of O and the balance of Fe and normal impurities. The experiment steel subjected to alloying design has good
hardenability, the hardening layer depth can be over 40mm in the end
quenching experiment and is 30mm higher than that of 42CrMo; the bearing ring of the large-size
shield tunneling machine is wholly subjected to quenched-tempered heat treatment, and after the surface is subjected to
induction hardening, the surface hardening layer texture is
cryptocrystalline martensite, and the matrix structure is tempered sorbite; the surface has high
hardness and has the average value of 58.5-60.3HRC; the core has good
toughness, the
impact toughness AKv value at the temperature of 20 DEG C below zero is over 106J; and the steel has proper
hardness, and the average value of the
hardness is 272-283HB. Meanwhile, a control
process window of an actual production
cooling medium is wide, and the
cooling speed is over 10 DEG C per second. Therefore, the requirement on the comprehensive
mechanical property of the steel for the bearing ring of the large-size
shield tunneling machine can be met.