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One of the variable parameters in steel cord twisting technologies is the steel cord tension before final reel. Changing this parameter is used to produce steel cord with high quality of straightness. Steel cord straightness is the most important technological parameter after tensile strength. It is simple to change the value of steel cord tension with special mechanisms or devices in composition of cable machines and twisting machines. It is very important to know the measures of tension setting. Low tension causes bad quality of steel cord and defects. High tension may brake steel cord during the twisting and lapping. Also high tension may change the mechanical properties of steel wire in the steel cord construction. The influence of steel cord tension in the range from 9 N to 30 N on active equivalent stresses in wire cross section and macro displacements of wire contact points in steel cord construction was shown. Effect of steel cord tension during the lapping on steel cord straightness after lapping was shown. In this research the optimal tension for producing steel cord 2x0.30HT was defined with numerical simulation, finite element analysis and criteria method. The optimal value of tension for other steel cord constructions will change, because of number of wires and its hardness.

Predicting the physical and mechanical properties of thin wire and metal cord will ensure an increase in the quality of latuned thin wire, a reduction in the number and time of technological pauses, and increase the manufacturability of metal cord twisting. Considering that the deformation manifests anisotropy of the properties of thin wire, the prediction of physical and mechanical properties and the degree of unevenness of deformation becomes an urgent task.The paper studies that an increase in the drawing speed of a thin wire leads to the acquisition of a more uniform and fine‑grained structure. The dependences of the physico‑mechanical properties of thin latuned wire after the metal cord is twisted on the speed of fine drawing are developed. The effect of the deformation rate on the microhardness of a thin steel wire is investigated. It is determined that in order to increase the productivity of metal cord twisting, it is necessary to bring the dependence of the increase in hardness and equivalent stresses in metal cord wires to a linear form by changing the speed of the twisting at its individual stages. For practical use, the dependences of the mechanical properties of a thin wire of strength class HT on the drawing speed are derived.During the analysis, the results were obtained, which are applicable in the design of new or modification of existing routes for drawing thin wire, as well as in the design of new metal cord structures.

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