The Determination of Thermal Residual Stresses in Wc - Ni Cemented Carbide Composites by Neutron Diffraction
설경원 Kyeong Won Seol
Abstract
The differential thermal residual stress state in WC-6wt.%Ni and WC-25wt.%Ni cemented carbide composites has been studied using neutron powder diffraction. Residual strain values have been obtained from the difference in WC cell parameters in a strain-free WC powder and in the composites over the temperature range 100-900 K. The nature of stress state of WC phase in the as-produced composite was confirmed to be hydrostatic by tri-axial stress measurements. The stress state is compressive in the WC phase and tensile in the Ni binder phase as expected. The absolute stress value increases as the temperature decreased and as binder content increased. The effective stress set-up temperatures are about 1030 K for low binder composite and 990 K for high binder composite.