Abstract:
Cutting elements include a diamond-bonded body attached with a substrate. The substrate has a coercivity of greater than about 200 Oe, and has a magnetic saturation of from about 73 to 90. The diamond-bonded body has a compressive stress at the surface of greater than about 0.9 GPa after heat treatment, and greater than about 1.2 GPa prior to heat treatment.
Abstract:
A cutting device for use in a drill bit has a body including an ultrahard material. The body has a top surface, a front surface, and at least one lateral surface adjacent the top surface. The lateral surface is oriented at a surface angle relative to the top surface between 30 and 150 degrees. One or more locking features are located on the lateral surface.
Abstract:
A cutting bit includes a body, a plurality of blades, and at least one ultrahard insert cast directly into at least one of the plurality of blades. The ultrahard insert is positioned with a rear face directly contacting the blade.
Abstract:
Cutting elements include a carbonate diamond-bonded body that is sintered under HPHT conditions in the presence of a carbonate material, where the body includes a matrix phase of intercrystalline bonded diamond with interstitial regions including the carbonate material, where the diamond-bonded body is sintered without a substrate. A matrix casting is formed and mechanically coupled to the body after the body is sintered, and a portion of the body surface is exposed along a surface of the matrix casting. The exposed body surface is thereafter intentionally treated to induce a compressive residual surface stress that is greater than a remaining portion of the body. The compressive residual surface stress is less than about 500 MPa, and from about 100 to 500 MPa, and a remaining region the body may have a residual stress of less than about 300 MPa, and less than about 100 MPa.
Abstract:
A cutting element may include: a substrate; and an ultrahard layer on the substrate, the ultrahard layer having a non-planar working surface, the non-planar working surface being formed from a first region and a second region, the first region, encompassing at least a cutting edge or tip of the cutting element and having a differing composition than the second region.
Abstract:
Polycrystalline cubic boron nitride includes cubic boron nitride grains and AlB12 between the cubic boron nitride grains. A method of manufacturing heat-treated polycrystalline cubic boron nitride includes sintering a mixture including cubic boron nitride and aluminum metal powder to form polycrystalline cubic boron nitride, and heat-treating the polycrystalline cubic boron nitride to form the heat-treated polycrystalline cubic boron nitride. A method of manufacturing polycrystalline cubic boron nitride includes sintering a mixture including cubic boron nitride and aluminum metal powder, the mixture including the cubic boron nitride in an amount of 85 vol% to 95 vol% and the aluminum metal powder in an amount of 5 vol% to 15 vol%, based on the total volume of the mixture.