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Analysis of the wire-drawing process with friction and thermal conditions obtained by
inverse engineering
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Full Title: Analysis of the wire-drawing process with friction and thermal conditions obtained by
inverse engineering
Abstract: In the cold wire-drawing process, although performed at room temperature, heat is
generated due to plastic work and friction at the workpiece-die interface. The
temperature distribution in both the workpiece and the die affects thermal expansion,
deformation pattern, and elastic recovery, resulting in the final dimension of drawn
products. We proposed inverse engineering procedures to determine the friction and
thermal conditions by comparing simple measurements with computation results of the
drawing power and temperature changes of the die. The conditions were then used to
simulate numerically the deformation behavior of wire and the temperature distribution
in the die. Thermal effects on the quality of drawn products were investigated based on
the prediction of the final dimensions of the products. It is concluded that thermal
effects should not be ignored even in the cold wire-drawing process and reasonable
numerical results were acquired in comparison with experiments.
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Abstract
In the cold wire-drawing process, although performed at room temperature, heat is generated due to plastic work and friction at the
workpiece-die interface. The temperature distribution in both the workpiece and the die affects thermal expansion, deformation
pattern, and elastic recovery, resulting in the final dimension of drawn products. We proposed inverse engineering procedures to
determine the friction and thermal conditions by comparing simple measurements with computation results of the drawing power
and temperature changes of the die. The conditions were then used to simulate numerically the deformation behavior of wire and
the temperature distribution in the die. Thermal effects on the quality of drawn products were investigated based on the prediction
of the final dimensions of the products. It is concluded that thermal effects should not be ignored even in the cold wire-drawing
process and reasonable numerical results were acquired in comparison with experiments.
Keywords: Wire-drawing; Dimensional change; Quality of drawn product; Friction condition; Thermal condition; Inverse Engineering
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and air.
1. Introduction Heat generation in the wiredrawing process was first
studied by Siebel and Kobitzsch[1]. In their analysis, the
In the wiredrawing process, the diameter of a wire is
plastic deformation work per unit volume was simply
reduced by pulling it through a conical die. The major
added to the frictional work and both of them were con-
variables in the drawing process are the reduction ratio,
verted to heat. Snidle further expanded the theory of Sie-
die angle, friction at the interface of wire and die, and
bel and Kobitzsch in that the acceleration of the wire as it
drawing velocity. Plastic deformation of the wire and
passes through the die is considered [2]. Lucca and
heat generated due to the friction between the wire and
Wright discussed the assumptions which might be taken
die raise the temperature of die, resulting in thermal ex-
into consideration in predicting the temperature rise re-
pansion of the die. The trend of using high speeds in the
sulting from frictional heating in the wire-drawing [3].
wiredrawing process to meet the demands for increased
They mentioned that the coefficient of friction at the
productivity is often difficult to manufacture the drawn
wiredie interface can be assumed to be constant and
products as a designated diameter because of the uncon-
independent of pressure and temperature. They also re-
trolled thermal expansion of the die. The magnitude and
ported that the frictional heating was concentrated on the
the distribution of temperature in the wire and die depend
interface between the wire and die, resulting in a severe
on the initial temperatures, heat generation due to plastic
temperature gradient.
deformation of the wire and friction at the wiredie inter-
There are many process variables, other than heat from
face, and heat transfer between the deforming wire, the
the drawing process, that affect the quality of drawn
die, and the surrounding environment, such as lubricant
products. U.S. Dixit and P.M. Dixit studied the effect of
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process variables such as the reduction ratio, the die
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E-mail address: nskim@sogang.ac.kr on the quality of drawn product [4]. Castro et al. analyzed
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the effect of the dies semiangle on the mechanical
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properties of annealed copper bars [5]. To identify the To minimize the drawing force, they determined the re-
effect of inclusion, Norasethasopon and Yoshida studied duction ratio and the coefficient of friction between the
the effect that the inclusion size and the inclusion para- wire and die. Shinohara and Yoshida carried out multi
meters of the aspect ratio have on the drawing stress, pass drawing of the stainless steel wire with an artificial
maximum hydrostatic stress, and maximum die pressure crack, and investigated growth and disappearance of a
during the single filament copperwire drawing process crack from both sides by experiments and the finite ele-
[6]. ment analysis(FEA) [19]. Komori presented a new equa-
Vega et al. measured the temperature and drawing force tion that denotes a change in the void volume fraction so
by changing the drawing velocity, and the drawing force that the fracture defects in highcarbon steel wire could
was measured by using a wire rolling gauge behind the be investigated [20]. McAllen and Pheland analyzed duc-
die [7]. Furthermore, they installed a thermocouple to tile fracture initiation and propagation by central burst-
measure the temperature rise in the deformation zone. ing in 2011 Aluminium wire, and the damage incurred
They confirmed from their experiment that the tempera- before the ductile fracture was analyzed using the mod-
ture and drawing force relied on interface conditions. Leu ified damage model [21].
evaluated the friction coefficient using the model of plas- Because a temperature rise in the die affects the lubri-
tic hemispherical contact against a rigid flat [8]. To de- cating condition, equipment life, and quality of the drawn
scribe the deformed hemispherical shape, he utilized the products, it is crucial to accurately predict the tempera-
fractional profile of an ellipsoid and simultaneously de- ture distribution in the die. The previous studies on the
fined the contact area ratio. To investigate dependence of temperature and products in the wiredrawing process
the shear friction factor on d/t and L/1000, Ajiboye et al. primarily address the dies temperature rise as result of
conducted ANOVA and compared two regression models the deformation and frictional heating generated as the
[9]. Based on the statistical results investigated, the mod- wire passes through the die; they also discuss the temper-
el using d/t as the independent variable was found to be ature rise due to the process variables such as the reduc-
valid in successfully predicting the shear friction factor at tion ratio, reduction angle, and drawing velocity. In con-
the punch interface than the other model using L/1000 trast, there is no information available about FEA proce-
kN. Obi and Oyinlola investigated fattybased oils for dures for conducting a practical analysis of the tempera-
metal forming applications [10]. By measuring the coef- ture distribution in the die that considers the friction con-
ficient of friction it is possible to grade these oils accord- dition and heat transfer to the surroundings, such as air.
ing to their lubricating capabilities since one of the quali- This study tries to propose procedures to utilize the
ties of a good lubricant is the ability to reduce friction measured drawing power and temperature curves of the
and also applied load. Luksza et al. focused on the de- die at a certain position in determining the friction and
formation behavior of the wires while conducting expe- thermal conditions by inverse engineering. The process
riments on both the single and the multipass drawing variables obtained reasonably will be, in turn, used to
process [11]. Corra et al. analyzed the influence of the numerically simulate the deformation behavior of the
structural features of the drawn wire on the strain soften- workpiece and die temperature distribution by FEA. Then
ing phenomenon [12]. They also conducted microstruc- it is expected that the effect of the temperature distribu-
tural and Xray diffraction analyses to evaluate the draw- tion on the final dimension or the quality of drawn prod-
ing stress. Son et al. investigated the deformation beha- ucts can be investigated.
vior of the surface defects with a notch shape on the wire
in a multi-pass hot rolling process using a finite element 2. Drawing conditions
code, CAMProll [13].
2.1 Process parameters
Residual stress on the drawn products has a significant
effect on post deformation. verstam examined the effect
The dimensions of tooling used in the wire-drawing
of the bearing geometry of die on the residual stress of
process are illustrated schematically in Fig. 1. As shown
the drawn wire [14]. Atienza et al. studied the influence
in Fig. 1(a), the inlet and the outlet diameters of the die
of residual stresses on the environmentally assisted
are D0 =10 mm and D f =8.1 mm, respectively; the
cracking of the wire [15]. Carpinteri et al. studied the
height of the die and case assembly (h) is 30.95mm and
effect on residual stresses due to fatigue crack propaga-
the width of the case (w) is 35mm. The wire, die and case
tion in a metallic cracked round bar with a Vshaped
were made of S45CS, WC, and AISIH13, respectively.
circumferential notch [16]. Ripoll et al. proposed a reduc-
Fig. 1(b) shows the die geometry. The parameters that
tion of the circumferential residual stresses during wire
define the die geometry include the back relief angle,
drawing by using advanced die geometry and by per-
reduction angle, entrance angle, and bearing length.
forming bending operations under favorable conditions
Fig. 2 shows the flow stress of S45CS at 20 C and
[17]. ElDomiaty and Kassab studied ways to minimize
200 C . Table 1 displays the thermal properties of the
the energy required for the wiredrawing process [18].
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selected materials used as workpiece or tooling in the Fig. 2. True stress-strain curve of S45CS
wiredrawing process. The drawing velocity was 916
mm/s, the initial temperature of the tools was 30 C , and 2.2 Experiments
the environment temperature was 20 C .
In the wiredrawing process, wires are pulled through a
Table 1. Thermal property of selected materials die at a consistent drawing velocity. Friction acts on the
Material S45CS WC AISIH13 interface between the wire and die, disrupting the relative
Heat conductivity( W / mK ) 51.9 59 24
motion of the wire. The drawing force will differ, de-
Heat capacity( J / mmK ) 0.486 15 2.7
pending on the magnitude of the friction. To estimate the
Thermal Expansion coefficient 1.397e-05 5e-05 1.17e-05
friction stress, we will use a simple friction model of
( 1/ K )
constant friction factor. The friction stress in the actual
process can be determined inversely by measuring the
drawing power using the drawing equipment [22]. The
drawing power was measured by wire rolling gauge be-
hind the die. The drawing powers were measured with
several combinations of the diameter of the wires, the
inner diameter of the die, and the reduction ratio. Fig.
3(a) contains the schematic diagram illustrating the mea-
surement of temperature on the die in the wiredrawing
process. A thermocouple was installed to measure the die
temperature at a certain position. For approximately 4,000
seconds, the wire was pulled through a die and the tempera-
ture at a specific position was recorded. Fig. 3(b) shows the
temperature curve measured for 4,000 seconds; the tem-
perature reached as high as 107.4 C during the wire
drawing process.
(a)
(a)
(b)
Fig. 1. (a) Schematic outline of the model used in experiments and
FEA and (b) parameters defining the die geometry
(b)
Fig. 3. Measurement of the die temperature during the wire drawing
process: (a) experimental setup; (b) temperature transition at chan-
nel 1
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3. Inverse engineering for determination of expe- assume that the same friction condition applied to all
rimental conditions three cases resulting in one value of friction factor, m .
f
computed one using the FEA with assigned friction factor. obtained by multiple simulation of FEA with different
The method is similar to determine thermal conditions by values of m near the minimum.
f
(a)
(a) (b)
(c)
Fig. 6. Two models and effects of interfacial heat transfer coefficient: (a) One-object model, (b) two-object model, and (c) temperature
curves with different hlub values
c 1,142,818hlub1
2
18,480h12 235,274 hlub1
3.2.4 Determination of hlub1 and h1 (5)
15,214h1 141,057hlub1h1 12,118,
To obtain the appropriate values of hlub1 and h1 , the
design of experiments was applied to the function of To minimize the objective function, BFGS was used.
area difference under temperature transition curves The method is an optimization methodology that di-
between measurement and computation, as shown in rectly updates a Hessian matrix. As a result, it was
Fig. 7. Following the study of Yen et al., initial determined that the design parameter hlub1 was
guesses of hlub1 and h1 , were set as 0.1 kW / m2 K 0.1011 kW / m2 K , and h1 , 0.0246 kW / m2 K . The cal-
and 0.025 kW / m2 K , respectively [24]. The constraint culated parameters were compared with the FEA re-
condition of hlub1 was set to be 0.1~0.102 kW / m2 K , sults. It can be regarded that hlub1 and h1 are deter-
considering that the relative error was less than 4% in mined to be appropriate, since the comparison revealed
the range. The initial value and level of the design a margin of error less than 0.05%.
parameters are shown in Table 3. The computation
results using the FEA are summarized in Table 4. The
response surface method was used based on orthogon-
al arrays to obtain an objective function comprising the
design parameters. The object function for optimiza-
tion is expressed in Eq. (5).
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4.2 Thermal effect on the dimensional change It is revealed that the inner diameter of the die with
thermal effect was less than that of isothermal case,
Effects of thermal deformation and elastic recovery resulting in the reduced dimensional change of the
of the workpiece and the die on the final dimensional wire by the amount of 0.003mm~0.004mm for three
accuracy have been investigated in other metal form- cases of die geometry, as summarized in Table 5. Ta-
ing processes [26, 27]. In this study, the friction and ble 5 also shows the dimensional changes of the drawn
thermal conditions obtained from inverse engineering wire with three cases of die geometry measured in
were used to simulate numerically the deformation and experiments, computations with and without thermal
heat transfer occurred during the cold wire-drawing effect, respectively. It should be noted that the compu-
process by using FEA. It is intended to investigate the tation results considering thermal effect is twice closer
thermal effect on the final dimension of the drawn than those without thermal effect.
products.
Fig. 1. (a) Schematic outline of the model used in experiments and FEA and (b) parameters defining the die geometry
Fig. 2. True stress-strain curve of S45CS
Fig. 3. Measurement of the die temperature during the wire drawing process: (a) experimental setup; (b) temperature transition at
channel 1
Fig. 4. (a) Temperature distribution of dies after 2.25sec and (b) temperature curves of node 1, 2, and 3
Fig. 5. Model of heat tansfer on surface in FE simulation of the wire-drawing process
Fig. 6. Two models and effects of interfacial heat transfer coefficient: (a) One-object model, (b) two-object model, and (c)
temperature curves with different hlub values
Fig. 7. Temperature transition curves obtained by experiment and computation
Fig. 8. Measurement method for the dimensional change: (a) experiment; (b) FEA
Fig. 9. Drawing force in steady state of the wire-drawing process (FEA)
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Table list:
Table 2. Friction factors calculated by Eq. (3) and a comparison of the drawing force between the experiments and FEA ( m f 0.1765 )
Figure list:
(a)
(b)
Fig. 1. (a) Schematic outline of the model used in experiments and FEA and (b) parameters defining the die geometry
(a)
(b)
Fig. 3. Measurement of the die temperature during the wire drawing process: (a) experimental setup; (b) temperature transition at channel 1
(a)
(b)
Fig. 4. (a) Temperature distribution of dies after 2.25sec and (b) temperature curves of node 1, 2, and 3
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(a) (b)
(c)
Fig. 6. Two models and effects of interfacial heat transfer coefficient: (a) One-object model, (b) two-object model, and (c) temperature curves
with different hlub values
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(a)
(b)
Fig. 8. Measurement method for the dimensional change: (a) experiment; (b) FEA