Carbide coatings and surface treatments have emerged as a critical field in advancing the mechanical performance and durability of steel. These processes, encompassing a variety of deposition and ...

Hard materials keep modern life moving, from drill bits to cutting tools. One of the toughest is tungsten carbide with cobalt, often shortened to WC–Co. It lasts a long time and resists wear, but ...

A research team affiliated with UNIST unveiled a new steel manufacturing process that can improve the driving distance of ...

While the First Industrial Revolution focused on the production of textiles and the invention of the steam engine, the Second Industrial Revolution was typified by the invention of machinery for mass ...

Diborides and carbides of transition metal elements, including zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), and tantalum (Ta), which are important members of the UHTCs family, exhibit good ablation resistance under ...

The figure shows the evolution of the microstructure of the melt pool under the influence of the simulated transient temperature field. Nucleated grains are represented in pink-purple plots, while ...