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Wire drawing is a cold work metal forming process which is dependant of a functional lubrication process. If the lubrication fails, there is a risk that both the tools and the produced wire will be damaged. Process monitoring of wire drawing is rare in today’s industry since there are no commercialised methods that deliver consistent results. In this paper, a method for monitoring of the wire drawing process is proposed and evaluated. A thermal imaging camera was used for acquiring thermal images of the wire as it leaves the drawing tool. It was found that the proposed method could capture changes in the wire drawing process and had correlation to the drawing force. An equation for estimating the friction condition between the wire and the drawing die using the wire temperature was also proposed and evaluated against experiments. The results showed that the new equation produced results that correlated well to results obtained using a conventional equation that use drawing force.
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Larsson, J., Jansson, A. & Karlsson, P. Monitoring and evaluation of the wire drawing process using thermal imaging. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 101, 2121–2134 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-018-3021-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-018-3021-7