Mathematical Modeling of Heating and Strain Aging of Steel during High-Speed Wire Drawing

In this article, a mathematical model of the wire’s average temperature change in the process of multiple drawing on high-speed straight-line drawing machines has been developed. The calculation results showed that the average temperature of the wire during a drawing at a speed of up to 45 m/s on straight-line drawing machines could reach 400 °C. Deformation heating of the wire during drawing does not exceed 60 °C, and heating due to sliding friction can reach 300 °C, depending on the friction coefficient, which ranges from 0.05 to 0.15. The average strain rates under the conditions of the modern high-speed drawing process reach 7000 s−1. Over the course of the research, it was found that there are no conditions for the occurrence of dynamic deformation aging due to impurity atoms of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. At the same time, at the temperature and speed parameters of the high-speed wire drawing, conditions are created for the onset of the dynamic strain aging of steel in the presence of hydrogen atoms. Therefore, during heat treatment and pickling, it is necessary to exclude the hydrogenation of steel. It has been established that in order to exclude static strain aging of steel during drawing, it is necessary to prevent heating the wire above 180–200 °C.