Effect of microstructure on fatigue properties of WC-Co hard metals

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2001-2010

  Klünsner, Thomas ^a,b   Marsoner, Stefan ^a   Ebner, Reinhold ^a   Pippan, Reinhard ^b   Glätzle, Johannes ^c   Püschel, Arndt ^c  

^a MATERIALS CENTER LEOBEN FORSCHUNG GMBH   (Austria)

^b Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science   (Austria)

^c CERATIZIT AUSTRIA GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cyclic behaviour; Hard metal; Threshold of stress intensity factor range; Uniaxial tension and compression test; Yield strength; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC BEHAVIOUR; HARD METALS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR RANGE; UNIAXIAL TENSIONS; YIELD STRENGTH; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; COMPRESSION TESTING; CRACKS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TENSILE TESTING; TUNGSTEN ALLOYS; WELDS; YIELD STRESS;

TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 77954129770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777058     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2010.03.215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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