Effect of V, Cr and Mn additions on the microstructure of WC-Co

International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 817-822

  Weidow, Jonathan ^a   Norgren, Susanne ^b   Andrén, Hans Olof ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Sandvik Tooling   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coercivity; EBSD; Hardness; Magnetic saturation

Indexed keywords

COERCIVITY; EBSD; GRAIN SIZE; MAGNETIC SATURATION; MN ADDITION; WC GRAIN SIZE;

CHROMIUM; COERCIVE FORCE; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HARDNESS; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; TUNGSTEN ALLOYS;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

EID: 67649836332     PISSN: 02634368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmhm.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Greenwood G.W. The growth of dispersed precipitates in solutions. Acta Met 4 (1956) 243-248
2. Kishino J, Nomura H, Shin SG, Matsubara H, Tanase T. Computational study on grain growth in cemented carbides. In: Proceedings of the 15th international plansee seminar, vol. 2; 2001. p. 50-64.
3. Hayashi K., Fuke Y., and Suzuki H. Effects of addition carbides on the grain size of WC-Co alloy. J Jpn Soc Powder Powder Met 19 (1972) 67-71
4. Suzuki H., Fuke Y., and Hayashi K. Grain size of WC in sintered WC-VC-Co alloys. J Jpn Soc Powder Powder Met 19 (1972) 106-112
5. Christensen M., and Wahnström G. Strength and reinforcement of interfaces in cemented carbides. Int J Refract Met Hard Mater 24 (2006) 80-88
6. Östberg G., Buss K., Christensen M., Norgren S., Andrén H.-O., Mari D., et al. Mechanisms of plastic deformation of WC-Co and Ti(C, N)-WC-Co. Int J Refract Met Hard Mater 24 (2006) 135-144
7. Henjered A., Hellsing M., Andrén H.-O., and Nordén H. Quantitative microanalysis of carbide/carbide interfaces in WC-Co-based cemented carbides. Mater Sci Technol 2 (1986) 847-855
8. Taniuchi T, Okada K, Tanase T. Sintering behavior of VC-doped micro-grained cemented carbide. In: Proceedings of the 14th international plansee seminar, vol. 2; 1997. p. 644-57.
9. Brandon D.G. The structure of high-angle grain boundaries. Acta Met 14 (1966) 1479-1484
10. Kim C.-S., Massa T.R., and Rohrer G.S. Interphace character distributions in WC-Co composites. J Am Ceram Soc 3 (2008) 996-1001
11. ; 2008 [accessed 13.08.08].
12. ; 2008 [accessed 13.08.08].
13. Frisk K, Norgren S, Zackrisson J, Markström A, Jansson B. Phase equilibria in cemented carbides based on C-Co-W with Ta, Ti, Nb and V additions using thermodynamic calculations. In: Proceedings of the 16th international plansee seminar, vol. 2; 2005. p. 184-97.
14. Markström A., Norgren S., Frisk K., Jansson B., and Sterneland T. Experimental and thermodynamic evaluation of the Co-Cr-C system. Int J Mater Res 9 (2006) 1243-1250
15. Schwenke G.K., and Studevant J.V. Magnetic saturation & coercivity measurements on chromium-doped cemented carbides. Int J Powder Met 2 (2007) 21-31
16. Chabretou V., Allibert C.H., and Missiaen J.M. Quantitative analysis of the effect of the binder phase composition on grain growth in WC-Co sintered materials. J Mater Sci 38 (2003) 2581-2590
17. Gale W.F., and Totemeier T.C. Smithells metals reference book. 8th ed. (2004), Elsevier, The Netherlands
18. Kumar V., Fang Z.Z., Wright S.I., and Nowell M.M. An analysis of grain boundaries and grain growth in cemented tungsten carbide using orientation imaging microscopy. Metal Mater Trans 37A (2006) 599-607
19. Mannesson K., Elfwing M., Kusoffsky A., Norgren S., and Ågren J. Analysis of WC grain growth during sintering using electron backscatter diffraction and image analysis. Int J Refract Met Hard Mater 26 (2008) 449-455
20. Kim J.D., and Kang S.J. Formation of grain boundaries in liquid-phase-sintered WC-Co alloys. J Am Ceram Soc 2 (2005) 500-503
21. Lay S., and Loubradou M. Characteristics and origin of clusters in submicron WC-Co cermets. Phil Mag 23 (2003) 2669-2679
22. Zhao J.-C. The fcc/hcp phase equilibria and phase transformation in Co-based binary systems. Z Metallkd 3 (1999) 223-232
23. Hellsing M. High resolution microanalysis of binder phase in as sintered WC-Co cemented carbides. Mater Sci Technol 4 (1988) 824-829
24. Weidow J, Andrén H-O. Grain and phase boundary segregation in WC-Co with V, Cr and Mn additions; in press.