Mechanical alloying and sintering of nanostructured tungsten carbide-reinforced copper composite and its characterization

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3293-3298

  Yusoff, Mahani ^a   Othman, Radzali ^a   Hussain, Zuhailawati ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF MATERIALS AND MINERAL RESOURCES ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

A. Metal matrix composite; C. Mechanical alloying; C. Powder metallurgy

Indexed keywords

C. MECHANICAL ALLOYING; C. POWDER METALLURGY; COPPER COMPOSITES; COPPER MATRIX; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELEMENTAL POWDERS; INTERNAL STRAINS; MECHANICALLY ALLOYED; METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES; MILLING TIME; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOSTRUCTURED CU; PLANETARY BALL MILL; POWDER MIXTURES; SEM; TUNGSTEN CARBIDE PARTICLES; WC COMPOSITES;

BALL MILLING; BALL MILLS; COPPER; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HARDNESS; MECHANICAL ALLOYING; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; MILLING (MACHINING); POWDER METALLURGY; POWDER METALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINTERED CARBIDES; SINTERING; TUNGSTEN; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

TUNGSTEN CARBIDE;

EID: 79953161193     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.02.025     Document Type: Article

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