Abstract
Conductive wire with higher tensile strength was produced by in-situ deformation of copper-steel alloy. The alloy contains 11.5 wt % of low carbon steel and was cast to ingot in a vacuum inductive melting furnace. The ingot was forged to rod which then underwent multi-cold-drawing into fine electrical wire. The maximum tensile strength of the wire is 862 MPa with an electrical conductivity of 42.33 % IACS when the cold-drawing strain (η) is 6.31..
Keywords
Copper-steel composite wire, In-situ drawing, Conductivity.
Citation
WENFANG CUI, SHIYONG LIU, YUZHOU GAO, Higher tensile strength and higher conductivity in-situ deformation composite of Copper-steel, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 6, 7-8, July-August 2012, pp.765-767 (2012).
Submitted at: May 28, 2012
Accepted at: July 19, 2012