The process of nano-sized wiredrawing is investigated by using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation in this study. The authors have constructed novel computation models of wiredrawing, in which a single wire of just a several nanometers in diameter is smoothly drawn through a perfectly rigid die together with lubrication mechanism and is forced to be shaped into thinner one. Interatomic potentials used in MD simulation is a conventional pairwise type useable for iron-carbon binary system (for pearlitic steel). For MD model of pearlite steel wire, it is recognized that ferrite-cementite interface effectively offers high-speed diffusion path for carbon atoms from cementite side to ferrite side (elementary mechanism of cementite decomposition). As conclusion, we showed by using atomistic simulation that nano-sized wiredrawing process is theoretically quite possible.
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