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Steel Wire Drawing: Microstructural Evolution and Wire Rope Metallurgy

Technical guide to steel wire drawing metallurgy. Covers patenting (lead bath treatment), drawing die materials and angles, pearlite colony alignment, true strain, and wire rope construction and fatigue.