Improved process conditions for the production of super-duty bronze wire

Abstract

A set of measures has been introduced to improve the service properties of wire by simultaneously increasing its electrical conductivity and tensile strength. These measures narrow the range of variation of the contents of alloying elements in the alloy by a factor of several dozen (48-fold for Cr and Zr and 18-fold for Ca), which makes it possible to regard the alloy's composition as being near-optimum, i.e., to classify the material as belonging to the group of alloys that have undergone "substantiated alloying." This resolves the problem set forth for the investigation. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York.