Citation

Das S, Koli P, Mathur J, Dey A, Bhattacharyya T, Bhattacharyya S. J. Fail. Anal. Prev. 2013; 13(6): 684-688.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, ASM International, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11668-013-9750-x

PMID

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Abstract

Torsion testing is used to determine the quality of steel wire used for motor tire beads in pneumatic tires. These steel wires must have good-tensile strength so that the tire bead can support the finished tire safely, and yet retain adequate ductility to deform easily around the forming wheel. The present paper highlights premature failure of bead wire which failed during torsion test. Torsion property is one of the important parameters of tire bead as it monitors both the metallurgical soundness and surface quality of a drawn wire. From the analysis, it has been concluded that probable reason for premature failure is due to strain aging (dynamic and static) caused by interstitial atoms which bounds the mobile dislocations resulting in increases yield strength and decreases bead formability. Moreover, the microstructural study indicates that failed specimen has misaligned and broken lamella of pearlite with globular cementite which creates the array of voids. These voids hinder the rotation of pearlite during torsion test thus leading to brittle fracture.

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