Description
The 2011 Mordica Memorial Lecture presents a summary of papers written or co-written by the author through his 35-year research of wiredrawing. The main topics are the effect of oxygen content on inner cracks in copper wire; FEM analysis of drawing wire with inclusions; and drawability improvement of shape-memory alloy wire, superconductive wire, and magnesium alloy wire. It also addresses the history and trends in wiredrawing research in Japan.