Conveners
Wear Resistance
- Joseph Domblesky (Marquette University)
The need to develop products with superior performance has led to the development of new materials and heat treatments. In the case of tools, well designed and controlled heat treatment is crucial to achieve appropriate combination of superior properties. In the huge number of heat treatment and surface engineering techniques, deep cryogenic treatment (DCT) shows very promising results....
The improvement of material properties for tool applications has always been an overriding development topic. To minimize wear, tool steels, special alloys based on nickel
or cobalt and metal matrix composites (MMC) have been developed – either as molten or as powder metallurgical materials. In this study a new kind of material is described which combines the outstanding properties of...
Wire drawing is one of the oldest and most used metal forming processes. In a conventional wire drawing process, the cross-section of the wire is reduced to the final dimension by drawing the wire through a series of drawing dies made of cemented carbide or poly crystalline diamond. Despite the use of different types of lubricants wear of the dies, frequently resulting in time-consuming die...
