Processing of Fine-grained Tungsten Carbide is Immature

In recent years, a variety of new tool materials endless, but tungsten carbide cutting tools will still be widely used in the future for a long period of time, it is necessary to study the development of new materials preparation technology to further improve and increase the tungsten carbide tool material’s cutting performance.

The strength and abrasion resistance of tungsten carbide cutting tools can be improved by refinement of hard phase grain size, increase of hard phase inter-granular surface area and enhancement of inter-granular bonding force. When the WC grain size reduced to sub-microns, the hardness, toughness, strength, wear resistance, etc. can be increased, and the required temperature can be fully densified. General tungsten carbide grain size is 3 - 5μm, fine-grained tungsten carbide grain size is 1--1.5μm (micron), ultra-fine tungsten carbide grain size can be up to 0.5μm (Micron, nanoscale).

As the grain refinement process is still not mature enough, so in the sintering process of tungsten carbide sintering is easy to grow into coarse grains, and grain growth will lead to the general strength of the material decreased, a single coarse WC grains are often Causing an important factor in material fracture.

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The Research Trends of Improving Tungsten Carbide Properties

In the development processing, tungsten carbide encountered contradiction between strength and hardness, which is with high hardness but low strength, high strength but low hardness. WC particle size of tungsten carbide is always greater than its original particle size with traditional methods, and usually in a few microns.

However, many countries have encountered difficulties in the study of nano-carbide, the main problems are reflected in two aspects: First, the preparation of nano-WC-Co composite powder activity is very sensitive to temperature, in the high temperature will be immediately grown up. The current research and development trend is to improving the preparation of ultra-fine WC-Co composite powder method and improve the sintering processing. The compactness and uniformity of the tungsten carbide prepared by low pressure isostatic pressing sintering process are well, and the process has the advantages of short production cycle and small process loss.

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