In the case of making Al wire for conductor materials, hot rolled bar is usually annealed for 1 hour at the temperatur of 320°C. But this annealing procedure causes the partial softening, so that for carrying out the cold drawing to the high reduction degrees, we must derive a high tensile strength. And to acquire the uniformity of products' property, partial softening is undesirable, hence in the recent days this annealing process is abbreviated by some factories. If annealing is abbreviated, we must devote our attention to the purity of Al, and Si, Ti must be controlled to lower limit, as the improvement of conductivity by annealing is not expected.
This report turn the attention to above facts, then electrical conductivity and mechanical property of cold drawn wire without annealing lare been measured relating to the impurity of Fe and Si. And samples were worked to 86% reduction degrees through hot rolling and cold drawing.
The electrical conductivity of high pure aluminium (Fe: 0.001, Si: 0.010, Cu: 0.002, 99.987 Al) is 64.6%, and it decrease to about 61.0% by 0.40% Fe content and about 59.0% by 0.40% Si. The range which has better conductivity than 61.0% is Si_??_0.12, Fe_??_0.36, and more undesirable influences of Si than Fe are observed on the account of solid solubility of Si in Al.
As regards the mechanical property, influences of Si and Fe on the tensile strength are additional, viz. increases of about 5kg/mm
2 as compared with high purity Al are observed due to 0.40% Si or Fe. Therefore it is more effective to the of increase tensile strength to rise Fe content with moderate amount of Si than to rise Fe alone. And tensile strength of some purity Al tend to show the maximum values when Fe/Si=1. On the other hand, elongations are between 2.5% and 3.5%, and they form a contrast tendency to the tensile strength to show higher values than 3% when Fe or Si contents are scarce and lower than 3% with considerable Fe and Si.
Conseguentry, the favourable contents of Si and Fe of Al for conductor wire will be Si: 0.08-0.12, Fe: 0.25-0.35%, considering with mechanical and electrical properties
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