Study HTHP Sintered WC/Co Hardmetal
AUTOR(ES)
Mashhadikarimi, Meysam, Gomes, Uilame Umbelino, Oliveira, Michel Picanço, Guimarães, Renan Da Silva, Filgueira, Marcello
FONTE
Mat. Res.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
22/12/2016
RESUMO
WC/Co is widely used as cutting tools, because has a unique combination of high strength, hardness, toughness, and moderate stiffness, especially with fine grained WC and finely distributed cobalt. WC/Co powder mixture sinters by different methods such as vacuum sintering, microwave sintering and SPS. High pressure high temperature (HPHT) sintering is a proposed method that can result in better distribution of cobalt and avoid undesirable phases by using high pressure, high temperature and very short sintering time. In this study, a powder mixture of WC- 10 wt% Co was sintered by HPHT at 1500 to 1900ºC under a pressure of 7.7 GPa for 2 minutes. Microstructural/structural analyses were performed by SEM/EDS. Hardness and compression test were also done to obtain the effect of sintering parameters. It was found that HPHT sintering method can be used to produce WC/Co hardmetal with low sintering time and high production rate. It was realized that increasing sintering temperature in HTHP sintering method results in increasing density but hardness and compression strength increase by increasing sintering temperature up to 1800 ºC and then decrease.
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