CEMENTED CARBIDES – A SUCCESS STORY（硬质合金一个成功的故事）.pdf

T U NG ST E N June 2010 CEMENTED CARBIDES – A SUCCESS STORY Wolf-Dieter Schubert, Erik Lassner (Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics – Vienna University of Technology) and Wolf an Böhlke (CERATIZIT Luxembourg SA) Milling of the Eurofighter ’ fuel tank barrier collector at the Varel plant of Premium AEROTEC. INTRODUCTION In 1923, when the well-known Schröter patent on cemented Starting from the first application as drawing die for the production of carbides* was submitted by the Patent-Treuhand- esellschaft lamp wire used in the OSRAM workshops (Fi . 1), the application of für elektrische lühlampen m.b.H in Berlin, ermany [1] , no one, even cemented carbides has become universal and includes metal the most optimistic, could imagine the enormous breakthrough for cutting, machining of wood, plastics, composites, soft ceramics, this material in the tooling industry. chipless forming (hot and cold), mining and construction, structural parts, wear parts, and military components. After WW2, a huge market opened in the growing economies and cemented carbides contributed as tool materials and construction Larger cemented carbide producers prepare several thousand parts to their industrial development. Today, cemented carbides are differently shaped specimens ranging in mass between less than 1 g the workhorses in all areas of the manufacturing industries: (such as balls for ball-point pens, which ar