Special-section steel bars are hot-rolled bars that have been cold-drawn to a designer’s or manufacturer’s specifications. Usually they are given the cross-section and size of a part they will be used ...

There is a high chance that specific shapes and mechanical properties are required when sourcing an alloy product for an industrial, medical, or consumer application. This is where cold working ...

Figure 1: Fragmentation via a cold-drawing-induced, propagating, mechanical–geometric instability. Figure 2: Characterization of fragmentation induced by cold-drawing of a PES fibre. Figure 3: ...