International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

With the help of computer simulation in the DEFORM-3D software, there was performed a virtual full factorial experiment of the process of shear drawing. In the course of the experiment, the effect of independent parameters (drawing speed, die rotation rate, die angle and friction factor) on the strain intensity was evaluated. As a result of the experiment, a regression equation was derived and the most significant individual factors and their combinations, influencing the response parameters, were determined. Also, comparative results were presented for the processes of regular drawing and shear drawing. It was demonstrated that the process of shear drawing has a higher efficiency from the point of view of strain intensity.

The paper presents the results of numerical modeling of the conventional drawing and free torsion processes of rods made of low-carbon steel using the "DEFORM-3D" software package. The heterogeneity of the strain intensity distribution in the investigated processes revealed in the model basically corresponds to real physical experiments with similar parameters of the structural heterogeneity. A mutual correspondence of the ductility diagram to the character of the structural changes in the samples deformed by free torsion is established, and the limiting values of the ductility margin, the excess of which leads to the development of fracture processes.