Comparison of Room Temperature and Cryo-Deformation Effects on Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Copper

The objective of this work is to study the effect of room temperature (RT) and liquid nitrogen temperature (LNT) rolling on mechanical properties of the pure copper. For the same percentage deformation, LNT samples show a significant increase in tensile strength and hardness value compared to RT samples. Microstructural investigation shows a large misorientation change between RT and LNT samples when we use grain orientation spread (GOS) as a measure of microstructural change. The mechanical property and microstructural changes are correlated with calorimetry experiments. We also present some preliminary results from our work on wire drawing at RT and LNT