What is Cemented Carbide

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Cemented Carbide is one of the most successful composite engineering materials ever produced. Cemented Carbide's unique combination of strength, hardness and toughness satisfies the most demanding

applications.

Cemented carbides consist of hard grains of the carbides of transition metals (Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Mo, Nb, Hf, Ta, and/or W) cemented or bound together by a softer metallic binder consisting of Co, Ni, and/or Fe (or alloys of these metals). Tungsten carbide (WC), on the other hand, is a compound of W and C. Since most of the commercially important cemented carbides are based on WC as the hard phase, the terms "cemented carbide" and "tungsten carbide" are often used interchangeably. 

A key feature of the Cemented Carbide is the potential to vary its composition so that the resulting physical and chemical properties ensure maximum resistance to wear, deformation, fracture, corrosion, and

oxidation. In addition, the wide variety of shapes and sizes that can be produced using modern powder metallurgical processing offers tremendous scope to design cost-effective solutions to many of the problems of

 component wear and failure encountered in both the engineering and domestic environment.