DIELESS WIRE DRAWING

MEL335
Prof. D. Ravi Kumar

Presented By:-
Rohit Gothwal
2010ME20796
 Wire Drawing
•It is manufacturing process of making a wire, generally from
a rod or a bar.
• A bulky process involves a large amount of plastic
deformation is one of the oldest manufacturing processes
known.
•The conventional technique to draw wire is cold
wiredrawing.
 Conventional Wire Drawing
The wire is pulled through a conical aperture called a die to reduce its diameter.

Cemented carbide or diamond

working surface

cost is associated with pre-cleaning of the wire prior to entry to the die, tooling, and lubrication
materials
 Problems associated
Die wear due to frictional and heating effects can rapidly diminish
tool life.
High tooling costs associated with it.

Harder the material most is the cost.

 Die-less Drawing Process
This innovative method is a semi hot or hot forming
process.
This is a contact free process takes advantage of the
temperature dependency of flow stress to reduce diameter
of wire.
Wire enters into a heat measurement cooling unit instead
of drawing die.
 Basic Elements
All die-less wire drawing systems must contain the some basic
elements namely.
A heating device
oResistance heating
oLaser heating
oinduction heating
A cooling device
Purified water and an inert gas
 Basic Elements
A method of applying a tensile force
Many methods of applying a tensile load have been utilised.
Use of rollers and pay-off wheels.
use of bearings and linear slides in a vertical fashion.
 Machine Design and Operation
Designed to produce infinitely variable reductions in mild steel wire
of maximum diameter, 5.0mm at temperatures between 400 and
900◦C at drawing speeds of up to 1.5m/s.
The wire is passed around both roller electrodes
Individual angular velocities are controlled to produce a tensile load
in the wire parallel to its longitudinal axis.
The current to heat the wire was obtained from a 1600A power
converter
The machine, which was controlled by an IBM PC.
 Data Acquisition
The instability of the die-less drawing process coupled with the
complex nature of the machine operation necessitated the use of an
automated data acquisition and machine control system.
Data was acquired for two purposes.
•Primarily, to record the test parameters of the wire.
•Secondly, to record data from the machine transducers to allow
machine control and monitoring to be achieved.
• The system is designed to sufficiently control the roller angular velocities
and wire temperature to achieve a desired reduction in the wire diameter.

• A PC based system was used to achieve the aforementioned requirement

due to its cost-effectiveness and flexibility.

• The hardware was controlled by LabVIEW software.

• The user interface consisted of numerous controls and indicators. The

controls allowed the user to input values and choices
Simplified flow chart of machine control and data acquisition
program
 Experiments
Experiments are conducted on low carbon steel wire of nominal diameter 2.65mm.

Results:
Maximum drawing velocity of 1.4 m/s was attained without wire fracture during the drawing
process.
Maximum reduction achieved in cross sectional area during a single pass was 72%. This
reduction was obtained at a test temperature of 780 ◦C.
Variation in wire diameter with
percentage reduction
 Advantages
•Absence of die makes the process less expensive as
compare to conventional processes.
•Suitable for materials that have high strength and high
frictional resistance.
•A large reduction of area can be achieved in single pass.
•Process can be applied to variable cross section bars.
Thank You