Quantitative analysis of WC grain shape in sintered WC-Co cemented carbides

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Christensen, Mikael ^a,b   Wahnström, Göran ^a,b   Allibert, Colette ^c   Lay, Sabine ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTED CARBIDES; GRAIN MORPHOLOGY; GRAIN SHAPE; METAL-CERAMIC SYSTEMS;

ANISOTROPY; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; SINTERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBIDES;

EID: 18144402838     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.066105     Document Type: Article

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