Comparative studies of WC-Co and WC-Co-Ni composites obtained by conventional powder metallurgy

Geometric and Crystallographic Characterization of WC Surfaces and Grain Boundaries in WC-Co Composites

Electron backscattered diffraction has been used to determine the orientation of WC crystals in a WC-Co composite and atomic force microscopy has been used to measure the shapes of planar sections of the same crystals. A stereological analysis has been used to determine that { } 1010 prism facets and the {0001} basal planes are the WC surfaces that are most frequently in contact with Co. Furthe...

The Hardness and Strength Properties of WC-Co Composites

The industrially-important WC-Co composite materials provide a useful, albeit complicated materials system for understanding the combined influences on hardness and strength properties of the constituent WC particle strengths, the particle sizes, their contiguities, and of Co binder hardness and mean free paths, and in total, the volume fraction of constituents. A connection is made here betwee...

Microstructural-Mechanical Property Relationships in WC-Co composites

While empirical relationships between the mechanical properties of WC-Cocomposites and the carbide grain size and carbide volume fraction are qualitatively well-known, the influence of other microstructural features on the macroscopic properties hasbeen less clear. In this thesis, a comprehensive study of the effect of the interfacecharacter distribution (grain shape and misorie...

بررسی رفتار سایشی کامپوزیت‌های WC-10wt%Co تجاری، WC-40vol%Co و WC-40vol%FeAl-B در دمای محیط

در این پژوهش رفتار سایشی کامپوزیت‌های تجاری WC-10wt%Co (H10F)، WC-40vol%Co و کامپوزیت‌های WC-40vol%FeAl-B با مقادیر مختلف بور از صفر تا ppm1000 به روش پین روی دیسک بررسی شد. آزمون‌های سایش در دمای محیط، تحت بار 40 نیوتن و طی مسافت 100 متر انجام شدند. سطوح سایش به وسیله میکروسکوپ الکترونی روبشی (SEM) مورد بررسی قرار گرفت. نتایج نشان داد که در بین نمونه‌ها، کامپوزیت WC-40vol%FeAl بدون بور کمترین ...

Aqueous Processing of WC-Co Powders