Wear Behaviour of CTC/FeCrCSi Composite

To bring the excellent abrasion-resistant po-tential of carbide into full play,composites of casttungsten carbide(CTC)grains based on mainlyplate martensite and high Cr,W white cast iron aremade on substrate of grey iron by cast-in-placehardfacing process.Results of high-stresstwo-body and three-body abrasion show that:(1)Base alloy microstructures have overwhelmingdominating effects on abrasion resistances of thecomposites in two-body and especially three-bodyabrasion systems.(2)All composites have very ex-cellent abrasion-resistances which increase drasti-cally with the increase of CTC grain size.In case ofthe same CTC grain size,composite based onmartensite white cast iron is much morewear-resistant than that based on mainly platemartensite although the volume fraction of CTCgrains in the latter is considerably larger than thatin the former.In three-body abrasion system,loadhas little effect on wear rate for composites basedon martensite white cast iron,but wear rate ofconventional wear-resistant materials increaseslinearly in a very steep slope as the nominal stressincreases.