The trend toward developing finer and finer carbide grains continues. The author looks at recent developments in the production of nanosized tungsten-carbide grains, which are smaller than 0.2 microns in diameter. Though not used widely at present for the production of cutting tools, some predict that will change as the technology evolves.
Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis.
Originally published on CTE: 2000-06-01
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/articles/size-matters/
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