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• TITLE: Microstructure Evolution of W-Cu Alloy Wire

  AUTHORS: Fei Shao, Wenge Chen, Hui Zhang, Bingjun Ding

  KEYWORDS: Hot-Swaging; Microstructure; W-Cu Alloy; Wire

  JOURNAL NAME: Materials Sciences and Applications, Vol.3 No.3, March 23, 2012

  ABSTRACT: Microstructure of W-Cu alloy wire before and after hot-swaging was studied in this paper. Results show that a homogeneous microstructure of the W-Cu alloy wire was formed after hot-swaging treatment, and the tungsten particles were embedded in copper phases to form a networking structure; the W-Cu alloy wire has a microstructure of body-centered-cubic tungsten particles and face-centered-cubic copper phase, and did not change after hot-swaging. The intermediate phases have not been found during the process, but the size of the tungsten particles in the copper matrix becomes smaller. After hot-swaging, the treated W-Cu alloy wire has a relative density of 105.1%, and a conductivity of 47.2% IACS, the tensile and bending strength can be as large as 644 and 1600 MPa, respectively.