Sintering of binderless tungsten carbide

Ceramics International

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 689-692

  Tsai, Kuo Ming ^a   Hsieh, Chung Yu ^a   Lu, Horng Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Binderless; Mold material; Sintering; Tungsten carbide

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; AIR BUBBLES; BALL-MILLED; BINDERLESS; CEMENTED TUNGSTEN CARBIDES; GRAIN-BOUNDARY DIFFUSION; IN-VACUUM; MOLD MATERIAL; MOLD MATERIALS; SECOND PHASE; SINTERED SPECIMEN; VICKERS HARDNESS NUMBERS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAPHITE; MOLDS; OPTICAL GLASS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON CARBIDE; SINTERING; TITANIUM CARBIDE; TITANIUM NITRIDE; TRACE ANALYSIS; TUNGSTEN; VICKERS HARDNESS;

TUNGSTEN CARBIDE;

EID: 71849093756     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2009.10.017     Document Type: Article

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