Scientists have found a promising new way to manufacture one of industry’s toughest materials—tungsten carbide–cobalt—using advanced 3D printing. Normally, producing this ultra-hard material requires ...
Tungsten Carbide is often referred to as a Hard Metal due to it’s very high hardness in relation to other metals. Typically a Tungsten Carbide Hard Metal can have a hardness value of 1600 HV, whereas ...
Manufacturers rely on tungsten carbide–cobalt for tools that must survive extreme wear. Yet shaping the material remains one of industrial manufacturing’s most stubborn challenges. Traditional methods ...
A research team, led by Prof. HUANG Zhulin at the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, successfully synthesized tungsten ...
Tungsten’s hardness at elevated temperatures, tensile strength, corrosion resistance and good electrical and thermal conductivity make it a metal of choice used in industry. Tungsten has the highest ...
Tungsten (W) was one of the first alloying elements to be used methodically—as early as the mid-19 th century—to enhance the properties of steel. One of the most significant alloying elements in ...