Effect of Annealing Temperature on the Microhardness of Tungsten Carbide Coatings

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 17 - 19, 20.03.2018

Mourad Khechba Beddiaf Zaidi , Chander Shekhar Maria Plamenova Nikolova

https://doi.org/10.26701/ems.339309

Abstract

Tungsten carbides (WC) coatings have been deposited by RF magnetron
sputtering onto steel substrate (XC70) temperature in the range of 500-1000 °C
under vacuum for 25 minutes. The mechanical properties of WC were investigated
by the measurements of microhardness by Vickers tests. We carried out
microhardness tests with loads varying between 10 g and 1000 g, and the
variations of the microhardness of our samples were followed as a function of
the annealing temperature, the applied load and the penetration depth of the
indenter.

Keywords

Microhardness , WC , steel (XC70) , Coating

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