This article focuses on the analysis of evolution inclusions present in eutectoid pearlitic steel subjected to a real cold drawing process. To this end, wires belonging different stages manufacture chain were studied, starting from an initial hot rolled bar (not drawn at all). In addition information obtained through visual inspection, quantitative microdefects generated by these was carried ou...

In this, the first paper in a series on neck formation and steady-state drawing of polymeric fibers and films under uniaxial tension, the emphasis is laid on those aspects of the mechanics of cold drawing that are not sensitive to viscoelastic effects and, therefore, can be treated by use of constitutive assumptions appropriate to elastic materials. It is here shown that a unidimensional theory...

In this second paper in a series on cold drawing of polymeric fibers and films, asymptotic formulae are derived for the tension in thin bodies of nonlinearly viscoelastic materials subject to inhomogeneous stretching. The formulae, which are valid to within an error of fourth order in sample thickness, give the tension in fibers and films as functionals of the histories of the local stretch and...

This article presents a 3-D multiplicative finite strain model for cold drawing (necking) in engineering thermoplastics. Amorphous as well as semi-crystalline polymers are considered. The notion of intermediate (local) stress-free configuration, that is associated with the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient, is shown to provide an appropriate framework for the modeling and...

Mechanical properties and microstructures of commercially pure titanium (CP-Ti) developed by a newly designed multi-pass equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) process and cold drawing were investigated. The ECAP apparatus was developed in order to improve the efficiency of common ECAP and the performance of finished products. A much stronger CP-Ti billet was produced by using the proposed proce...