• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.275-280
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• 2019

The aim of this study is to fabricate an ultra-fine pure rhodium wire using multi-pass wire drawing process. To manufacture $30{\mu}m$ ultra-fine rhodium wire from the initial $50{\mu}m$ wire, a multi-pass wire drawing process was designed based on the uniform reduction ratio theory. The elastic-plastic finite element analysis was then conducted to validate the efficacy of the designed process. The drawing load, drawing stress, and the distribution of the effective strain were evaluated using the finite element analysis. Finally, the wire drawing experiment was performed to validate the designed wire drawing process. From the results of the experiment, the diameter of the final drawn wire was found to be $29.85{\mu}m$.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.244-249
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• 2018

Rhodium is a representative platinum group material. Rhodium is used in several industrial fields including jewelry, chemical reaction catalyst, electric component etc. In recently, ultra-fine rhodium wire has been applied to the pins of probe card used to test a semiconductor. In this study, in order to produce a fine rhodium wire with the diameter of $50{\mu}m$, a fine rhodium wire drawing process was designed. After design of the fine wire drawing process by using a uniform reduction ratio theory, finite element analysis was performed. Finally, fine wire drawing experiment was performed to verify the effectiveness of the designed process.