Studies on Vacuum-Sintering of TiC-Ni Cermets

Abstract

The vacuum-sintering of TiC-Ni cermets was studied for the purpose of obtaining basic informations on the sintering technique of TiC-base cermets. Under a fixed condition of ball-milling, some properties such as the strength, the hardness, the density, the microstructure, the carbide grain size etc. of the cermets were described as a function of metal binder contents, pressing pressures and sintering conditions and the correlations between the properties were also made clear.