Cold-drawn pearlitic steel wires have attracted considerable interest because of their
excellent combination of strength and ductility. The physical interpretation of these …

The influence of cold wire drawing on the structure of a pearlitic steel containing 0.7 wt% of
carbon and subjected to a strain of approximately 3.5 has been studied. The as-deformed …

Tensile tests were performed on heavily cold drawn and annealed pearlitic steel wires, on
which wire drawing induced a partial dissolution of the cementite phase. The high strength …

The microstructure and crystallography of drawn pearlitic steel wires have been quantified
by a number of electron microscopy techniques including scanning electron microscopy …

Atom probe tomography analysis of heavily drawn pearlitic steel wires was performed with
and without low-temperature aging. In the as-drawn wire, the lamellar cementite hardly …

Strengthening mechanisms and strength–structure relationships have been analyzed in a
cold-drawn pearlitic steel with a structural scale in the nanometer range and a flow stress of …

Cold drawing is an effective process to increase the strength of fully pearlitic steels with an
acceptable level of ductility. Recently, it has been reported that the lamellar cementite …

The residual stress state in both the cementite and ferrite phases of cold-drawn pearlitic
wires has been measured by neutron diffraction. The phase microstress in the axial direction …

Cold-drawing of a pearlitic steel results in a dramatic increase in its ultimate tensile strength,
to> 3.2 GPa, and it retains ductility (1, 2). Typically, such a pearlitic wire is produced by fully …

The evolution of the cementite phase during wet wire drawing of a pearlitic steel wire has
been followed as a function of strain. Particular attention has been given to a quantitative …