Investigation of Grain Anisotropy on Surface Area between Carbon Steel Wire and Die at Drawing

Drawing is characterized by non-uniform character of plastic deformation, which is transferred from the die to the processed wire. Such impact causes specific change of wire microstructure. In the surface area the thin layer with highly deformed grains is observed. It is important to measure the thickness of this thin layer. For this purpose it is proposed in this paper to use the value of coefficient of anisotropy, which is calculated as the ratio of mean quantity of phase particles, crossed by secant line perpendicular to deformation axis on the unit of secant line length to the mean quantity of phase particles, crossed by secant line parallel to deformation axis on the unit of secant line length. Distribution of coefficient of anisotropy, both for low and high carbon steel wire after drawing, was obtained by Thixomet PRO software. It made it possible to calculate the thickness of highly deformed area automatically taking into consideration the difference of steels microstructure.

Influence of Crystal Orientation on Ni3Fe Dislocation Structure Evolution

The dislocation structure and mechanical properties of Ni3Fe single crystals with the short range order were investigated. The laws of the dislocation structure evolution of single crystals at different deformation axis orientations were analysed. Correlation of the dislocation structure evolution with the deformation stages for the single crystals with the deformation axis orientations [001], [11], [011] and [1.8.12] was established. The role of the slipping plane numbers in the substructure evolution was revealed.