NiTi alloy wires are widely used in many applications for examples, orthodontic arch wires, mini screw implant, sensors, etc. Usually, wire drawing process is chosen to produce arch wires because of its high productivity as well as superior surface quality of the drawn wire surface. In the case of NITI arch wire, the cold work occurred during wire drawing operation also plays important role to ...

Femur fractures occur during broaching and impaction of the implant during hip arthroplasty. Prophylactic cerclage of the proximal femur with braided cable and steel wire has been shown to decrease hoop stresses and has been posited as a way to decrease the incidence of intraoperative fracture. In this biomechanical study, the authors investigated the strain across the proximal femur during bro...

I t is well known that under certain conditions the reaction of iron wire with nitric acid exhibits an automatic r h y t h m of sometimes remarkable regularity, consisting in an alternation of active and passive periods. 1 In a recent study of this phenomenon ~ I have found the most regular rhythms in soft iron wire of low carbon content. Wire drawn from iron prepared by electrolysis of pure so...

Investigations on flexural and tensile properties of GFRP laminates influenced by stainless steel wire reinforcement were carried out as a novel approach. Plain GFRP laminates and GFRP laminates reinforced with stainless steel wires at different depth with various pitch distances were fabricated by hand layup method. The composite specimens reinforced with steel wires were exposed to low freque...

This paper studied effects of ultrasonic treatment during the solidification process on structure formation of low carbon steel. Results showed that with ultrasonic treatment grains were refined and the steel ingot avoided the cast widmanstatten structure. When ultrasonic treatment was employed, pearlite was broken and the average length of pearlite was decreased from 550mm to 140mm. The corres...