Our study was carried out on an AGS (AA6101) type aluminum alloy wire rod, the most used by the ENICAB company in the manufacture of electrical energy transmission cables. The objective of this work is to study the evolution of deformation texture and the energy stored in the grains during cold drawing of aluminum wire for industrial applications, for an objective to understand the link between the microstructure and the mechanical behavior after wire drawing. We have found that the wire deformation texture of the copper wires is composed mainly of the two fibers <111> // DN and <001> // DN (DN // drawing axis) and that the fiber <111> / / DN is a majority and the fiber <001> // DN is a minority. In addition, we found an increase in hardness, mechanical strength and energy stored in deformed grains of wire drawn with increasing deformation   level [1-3]. For this study several experimental techniques of measurement and characterization allowed us to carry out this work. These are Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Back Scattered Electron Diffraction (EBSD), X-ray diffraction, Neutron diffraction, Vickers microhardness and Chemical analysis by EDAX, some of which have allowed to correlate microstructure, mechanical properties to the deformation texture.

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