US3720504A - Sintered steel-bonded hard metal alloy and a method of preparing the same - Google Patents

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US3720504A
US3720504A US00081497A US3720504DA US3720504A US 3720504 A US3720504 A US 3720504A US 00081497 A US00081497 A US 00081497A US 3720504D A US3720504D A US 3720504DA US 3720504 A US3720504 A US 3720504A
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  • a sintered alloy of the type comprising a steel matrix and one or more metal carbides and which has high abrasion resistance, is characterized by the presence of free graphite in the steel matrix.
  • Such sintered alloys are obtained by a method of sintering in which the sintered alloys are maintained for an extended period of time at sintering temperatures followed by controlled cooling.
  • This invention relates to sintered steel-bonded hard metal alloys, and particularly relates to such alloys containing primarily metal carbide e.g. titanium carbide, and to a method of producing such alloys.
  • metal carbide e.g. titanium carbide
  • Hard metal alloys in which one of the components is a hard metal, namely a metal carbide, boride, nitride or silicide, and the other component is steel, are well known. Due to the high content of hard metal amounting to between 10 and 75% by weight of the alloy, such hard metal alloys are extremely abrasion-resistant and are used for instance for making plastics-forming tools, such as draw plates.
  • Such materials may be porous sintered bearing materials, consisting for instance of iron, bronze, copper, German silver, plastics, carbon and other materials. Their lubricating properties derive from the fact that their pores are filled with oil, or materials such as copper, phosphor bronze and similar materials may have an inherent lubricity.
  • Other materials that have self-lubricating properties are cast irons in which the presence of flaky or spheroidal graphite together with phosphides and sulphides is responsible for a self-lubricating effect.
  • Other cast iron types contain minor proportions of chromium carbides and molybdenum carbides and possess a somewhat improved abrasion resistance. However, the wear-resistance of these materials likewise falls short of requirements.
  • the present invention provides a highly abrasion resistant hard alloy which has self-lubricating properties, and which is suitable for the fabrication of parts that in use will be exposed to considerable rubbing wear.
  • the invention provides a sintered steel-bonded hard metal alloy consisting essentially of 10 to 75% by weight of hard metal consisting substantially of one or more metal td States atent 3,720,504 Patented Mar. 13, 1973 carbides, and from to 90% by weight of a steel matrix containing free graphite.
  • the graphite content of alloys according to the invention is preferably between 0.8% and 3.9% by Weight based on the total weight of the alloy.
  • Preferred hard metal alloys according to the invention consist essentially of all percentages being by weight.
  • 7 metal alloys is preferably from 15 to 35%.
  • titanium carbide in the said preferred alloys may be replaced by one or more other metal carbides.
  • the resultant structure resembles that of cast iron and has the self-lubricating properties of the latter.
  • Tests have confirmed that the life of steel-bonded hard metal alloys that are known to be extremely abrasionresistant is substantially prolonged by the addition of the graphite in the steel matrix whenever alloys according to the invention are subjected to rubbing wear.
  • the wearresistance to rubbing friction was also found to exist in situations when only one of the two frictionally co-operating parts consisted of the steel-bonded hard metal alloy according to the invention, and the other of another material.
  • solubilities during sintering differ from those obtaining when a melt freezes, during which freezing carbon is primarily precipitated only from hypereutectic alloys (above 4.3% by weight of C), and continuing solidification causing graphite to attach itself to the carbon.
  • freezing carbon is primarily precipitated only from hypereutectic alloys (above 4.3% by weight of C)
  • graphite to attach itself to the carbon.
  • the formation of cementite must be prevented and the solution of the carbon in the iron assured. Consequently the manner in which the overall sintering treatment of hard metal alloys according to the invention is conducted is of primary importance.
  • a method according to the invention of sintering the said hard metal alloys is provided by forming a pressing of powdered starting materials (namely the elements forming the hard metal component and the steel matrix), and heating the pressing at the rate of from 80 to 100 C. per hour to a sintering temperature of from 1000 to 1200 C., maintaining the thus-heated pressing at the sintering temperature for at least 4, and preferably from 4 to 6 hours, cooling the sintered pressing at the rate of from 30 to 50 C. per hour to a temperature between 750 and 850C, and then further coolingthe pressing to room temperature at the rate of from 100 to 200 C. per hour.
  • powdered starting materials namely the elements forming the hard metal component and the steel matrix
  • the successful sintering of the process depends on the chemical composition, since during sintering the reaction proceeds and a hard brittle material resembling white iron is produced having properties that are the exact reverse of those of the required material.
  • the randomly-orientated graphite improves the resistance to temperature shock and the thermal conductivity of the material.
  • the deliberately non-orientated, but finely and evenly distributed graphite flakes lead to a very low coefficient of friction and a high resistance to heat cracking which may occur when high and rapid surface friction arises, as when parts are inexpertly ground and the temperature is allowed to fluctuate by rapid heating and cooling.
  • a hard metal alloy according to the invention was prepared containing 20% by weight of titanium carbide, 2.5% by weight of carbon, 2.0% by weight of silicon, 1.5% by Weight of nickel, balance iron.
  • the steel matrix was purely ferritic and the graphite was present in spheroidal and flaky form.
  • the titanium carbide was evenly distributed in grain sizes between 1 and 3 m.
  • the hardness of the said alloy was 33 to 36 HRC, corresponding to 321 to 35.3 H8.
  • the proportion by volume of the graphite was in the range 35 to 40%, and provided the alloy with the desired self-lubricating property in addition to resistance to abrasive wear.
  • This ferritic structure containing flaky graphite lamellae and having a titanium carbide content provides outstanding damping properties which improve even further with greater carbon contents, i.e. a pearlitic structure.
  • An increase of the nickel content to 36.0% by weight leads to the production of an austenitic matrix having embedded therein titanium carbides and graphite, the content of carbon controlling the quantity of graphite present.
  • Such austenitic alloys are corrosion resistant, nonmagnetic, non-scaling, very tough and also satisfactorily machinable.
  • the coefficient of thermal expansion of austenitic alloys is nearly twice that of ferritic or pearlitic alloys containing titanium carbide and graphite.
  • Manganese contents encourage the formation of austenite and may be as high as 7.0% by weight.
  • Aluminium in quantities up to 7.0% by weight increases the volume of the liquid phase, which is desirable when the hard metal contents are high.
  • Copper up to 8.0% by weight has an aging effect and also improves the lubricity of the alloy.
  • Boron up to 0.1% by weight has a deoxidant effect in the interior of the alloy and causes existing oxygen to be bound by forming B 0 in the alloy, which easily volatilises at relatively low temperatures in a vacuum.
  • the elements, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium and titanium are not often required in hard metal alloys according to the invention, because they are strong carbide-formers that would at once react with the graphite. However, they may be incorporated in total quantities not exceeding 2.0% by weight, for hardening the alloy.
  • the production of hard metal alloys according to the invention utilizes the main constituents, namely hard metal, and the individual components of the steel matrix.
  • the individual elements forming the hard metal component and the steel matrix, or key alloys containing the same such as carbonyl iron, graphite, silicon, for instance in the form of ferrosilicon, may be dry mixed, wet ground to a grain size of 1 to 3 ,um., vacuum dried, pressed and sintered in a vacuum of 2 '10 torr at about 1100 C.
  • Sintering proceeds in the manner hereinbefore described by slow heating, soaking for several hours at sintering temperature and gradual cooling in stages after sintering has taken place.
  • a heat treatment of the sintered hard metal alloy may subsequently be carried out. This may comprise annealing to relieve internal stress without affecting the structure at a temperature between 550 and 650 C.
  • a heat treatment may be performed between 650 and 800 C.
  • For pearlitic basic structures hardening in oil at 870 to 900 C. followed by drawing between 200 and 240 C. may be performed.
  • Steel-bonded hard metal alloys according to the invention are particularly suitable for providing parts that are subject to rubbing friction and that should therefore have self-lubricating properties to prevent the co-operating part from being excessively worn. Thus they may be used for a variety of specific applications, for instance for bearings which may work at temperatures rising up to 900 C. if the matrix is austenitic, for brake drums, brake shoes, brake blocks, clutch presser plates, valve tappets, liners, sealing rings, gaskets, piston rings, parts of machinery and pump parts.
  • the cost of production thereof may be reduced.
  • a sintered steel-bonded hard metal alloy consisting essentially of 10 to 75% by weight of hard metal consisting substantially of one or more metal carbides and from 25% to by weight of a steel matrix containing free graphite.
  • a hard metal alloy according to claim 1 having a composition (by weight):
  • a hard metal alloy according to claim 4 containing from to of titanium carbide.
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