Cemented Carbides

Cemented Carbides provides a general overview on modern cemented carbides and is intended for newcomers in the field of cemented carbides and related hard materials, as well as MS and PhD students. The book describes all aspects related to the fabrication and examination of cemented carbides starting from the production of raw materials and ending with final operations of surface finishing and coating. Basic phase diagrams of WC-based cemented carbides are presented and analysed. Technological processes and equipment employed on different stages of the cemented carbide manufacture including milling, granulation, pressing, sintering, surface finishing and deposing wear-resistant coatings are described, as well as modern techniques and instruments employed for controlling the microstructure and properties of cemented carbide. Modern cemented carbide grades for different applications are described with an emphasis on mechanisms of their wear and degradation. Recent trends in the research and development of cemented carbides are outlined. Cemented carbides are metal-ceramic composites consisting of a ceramic phase, tungsten carbide, and a metal binder, cobalt and are used widely in various industries including mining, construction, oil-and-gas drilling, and so on, because of their high level of hardness, their resistance to wear, and their toughness and strengthPublication of this title supports our strategy to sign key foundational titlesFills a gap in our current offerings.  No title has been published in this area in over ten years, neither by ourselves nor other publishersProposal came to us via our Journals colleagues and helps to further forge our relationship with JournalsWritten by one of the top experts in the field, a former Russian scientist, allowing us to tap into that country’s wealth of knowledge on this topic