ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Failure Modes and Mechanisms
Steel Wire Cracked at Welded Joint
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Published:2019
Abstract
A 2.3 mm diam steel wire broke during cable twisting. The fracture occurred obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the wire and showed a constriction at the end. Therefore it was a ductile fracture. File mark type work defects were noticeable on the wire surface at both sides of the fracture, but they had no effect on the breakage of the wire. Away from the fracture area, the wire had a normal structure of hyperfine lamellar pearlite (sorbite) of a “patented” and cold drawn steel wire. In the vicinity of the fracture, the cementite of the pearlite was partially...
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Member Sign InFriedrich Karl Naumann, Ferdinand Spies, Steel Wire Cracked at Welded Joint, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Failure Modes and Mechanisms, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.modes.c9001186
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