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CARBIDE ALLOY ANALYSIS WITH HANDHELD XRF ANALYZER

 

As an important class of basic materials, alloys are widely used in various fields of industrial manufacturing, including aerospace, energy industry, 5G construction, special manufacturing, etc. Alloys are multi-chemical substances composed of at least two or more metals or metals and nonmetals. According to their performance characteristics, they can be divided into superalloys, corrosion-resistant alloys, magnetic alloys, hard alloys, and memory alloys.

 

 

 

What Is Carbide Alloy

Carbide alloy is composed of a combination of the elements of carbon and tungsten. When these two elements are mended together they create an alloy that is resistant to heat, scratches, pitting, and rust. You can even compare the hardness to that of a diamond due to the high density it holds.

Actually, for industrial use, the carbide alloy or cemented carbides are often made by sintering grains of tungsten carbide with a metallic binder, frequently cobalt elements included.  A few amounts of titanium, tantalum, chromium or vanadium carbides are also included; depending on the final composition, these additives significantly influence the material properties and the finished materials

 

Carbide Alloy Used for Tool Coating

Cutting tools like milling cutters and drill bits are used for machining and processing various materials. Depending on their intended application, they are made from different cemented carbide alloys.

Carbides are divided into different ISO classifications based on the industrial application they are best suited for. The “P” class carbides, for example, contain a relatively high proportion of titanium and tantalum carbide (TiC and TaC) and are used for the processing of long-chipping materials such as steel or cast steel. Hard metals of the “K” group contain little to no TiC or TaC; they are preferred for machining short-chipping materials like cast iron, non-ferrous metals, hardened steel, wood or plastic.

In addition to the conventional tungsten-carbide-based hard metals, there are those that contain only titanium carbide and titanium nitride as hard materials; these are characterised by very high hardness and wear resistance.

 

 

Why Is It Necessary to Know the Composition of Carbide Alloy

 

 

Cemented carbide or carbide alloy is known as "industrial teeth". It has the characteristics of high hardness and wear resistance. It can maintain excellent physical properties even in high temperature environments. It is often used in the manufacture of cutting tools, mining tools and wear-resistant appliances. Its main component (hardening phase) is carbide of high hardness refractory metals, such as WC and TiC; it also contains transition metals such as Co, Ni and Mo in the single state, which are used as binders in the sintering process. The relative content of the hardening phase and the binder will significantly affect the hardness, flexural compressive strength and thermal shock resistance of the material. Therefore, the chemical composition analysis of cemented carbide has very important guiding significance for the functional design and quality management of materials.

 

How to Test the Chemical Composition of Carbide Alloy

 

 

The most important high hardness and wear resistance of cemented carbide make it very difficult to process, such as cutting, grinding, and the digestion process necessary for conventional wet chemical analysis methods (such as titration, ICP, AAS, etc.) Alloys are also very difficult. As a non-destructive elemental analysis method, XRF can directly analyze the sample, the concentration range of the determination is from ppm level to 100%, and the content information of all components can be obtained in one injection. Another problem facing cemented carbide analysis is the lack of standard samples that match the matrix. The conventional standard comparison method has certain difficulties in practical applications, and the use of the basic parameter method can solve such problems.


Terra900 series handheld alloy analyzer can be a convenient solution for element concentration analysis of carbide alloy and improves the efficiency of incoming carbide material detection.
In order to determine the quality of the source material, manufacturers of milling cutter or drill bits must verify the exact material composition of the hard metal alloy. So they need to make very precise analysis during the incoming goods inspection.

 

In addition, Terra 900 Series handheld alloy analyzer also has the following advantages:

(a) The handheld XRF analyzer is portable and easy to use on site
(b) No sample preparation required for non-destructive testing
(c) Short detection time, reliable quantitative analysis results
(d) It can also test the coating thickness

 

The Terra900 series of handheld alloy analyzers provide a relatively complete solution for the quality checking of incoming carbide material. The instrument is equipped with high-performance X-ray tube and Si-Pin/SD detector to provide users with fast and accurate element content analysis. In addition, an optional large-area silicon drift detector is provided to further improve instrument resolution and reduce analysis time.

 

About AXR Scientific

 

AXR Scientific is a high-tech manufacturer focusing on the development and application of X-ray technology products. It is committed to becoming a world-class supplier of X-ray industrial inspection solutions.

 

AXR Scientific currently offer handheld XRF analyzer, handheld alloy analyzer, handheld soil analyzer, handheld lithium battery analyzer, precious metal analyzer, coating analyzer, gold analyzer and online XRF analyzer etc. to global customers. We keep serving global customers in the fields of machinery manufacturing, metal processing, aerospace, petrochemical, mining and geology, food safety, environmental protection, scientific research and etc.

 

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