摘要:
A strike tip (100) for a pick tool, comprising a strike structure (120) joined to a substrate (110) at an interface boundary (115), the strike structure (120) comprising or consisting or super-hard material and the substrate (110) comprising or consisting of carbide material; the strike tip having a proximate strike end (117) coterminous with the super-hard material and a distal end (118) defined by the substrate (110), a side connecting the strike and distal ends; the strike end (117) including a flat apex area (150) and an outer area extending from the apex to the side. The apex area (150) is substantially less than the outer area, and is at least 1 square millimetre and at most 25 square millimetres.
摘要:
A method for making a treated super-hard structure, the method including providing a super-hard structure comprising super-hard material selected from polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PCBN) material or thermally stable polycrystalline diamond (PCD) material; subjecting the super-hard structure to heat treatment at a treatment temperature of greater than 700 degrees centigrade at a treatment pressure at which the super-hard material is not thermodynamically stable, for a treatment period of at least about 5 minutes to produce the treated super-hard structure.
摘要:
A cemented carbide article comprising a core of metal carbide grains and a binder selected from cobalt, nickel, iron and alloys containing at least one of these metals, and a surface layer which comprises (by weight) 5-25 % tungsten and 0.1-5 % carbon and a metal or alloy selected from the binder metals and alloys. The surface layer is substantially free of carbide grains as determined by optical microscopy or SEM. The cemented carbide article can be made by forming a mixture of metal carbide grains and a binder selected from cobalt, iron and nickel and alloys containing one or more of these metals, pressing the mixture to form the article, sintering the article and cooling the article to a temperature at which the binder is substantially solid in an inert gas, nitrogen, hydrogen or a mixture thereof in at least three cooling stages, the cooling rates being progressively lower rates.