The Effect of sintering temperature on microstructure and hardness of milled WC- 20 wt.% equiatomic (Fe,Co) cemented carbides

Subject Areas : Composite materials

Minoo Karbasi ¹ , Maryam Karbasi ² , Ali Saidi ³ , Mohammad Hossein Fathi ⁴

1 - Department of Materials Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
2 - Department of Materials Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
3 - Department of Materials Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
4 - Department of Materials Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.

Received: 2014-04-23 Accepted : 2015-01-01 Published : 2015-03-01

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