Hardness cobalt

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Lison D, Lauwerys R, Demedts M and Nemery B (1996) Experimental research into the pathogenesis of cobalt /hard metal lung disease. Eur Respir J 9 1024-1028. 

Grain-growth inhibitor in WC-cobalt hard metals In steel alloys where it forms during melting... 

Sliding friction, wear, ceramic, oscillation, coating, NbC, niobium carbide, cobalt, hard metal INTRODUCTION... 

Nickel is silvery white and takes on a high polish. It is hard, malleable, ductile, somewhat ferromagnetic, and a fair conductor of heat and electricity. It belongs to the iron-cobalt group of metals and is chiefly valuable for the alloys it forms. 

Gobalt is a brittle, hard metal, resembling iron and nickel in appearance. It has a metallic permeability of about two thirds that of iron. Gobalt tends to exist as a mixture of two allotropes over a wide temperature range. The transformation is sluggish and accounts in part for the wide variation in reported data on physical properties of cobalt. 

Vanadium—Cobalt-Iron Alloys. V—Co—Fe permanent-magnet alloys also are ductile. A common commercial ahoy, Vicahoy I, has a nominal composition 10 wt % V, 52 wt % Co, and 38 wt % Fe (Table 10). Hard magnetic properties are developed by quenching from 1200°C for conversion to bcc a-phase foUowed by aging at 600°C (precipitation of fee y-phase). The resulting properties are isotropic, with ca kJ/m ... 

Cemented Carbides. Cemented carbides contain mostiy tungsten carbide and lesser amounts of other hard-metal components, embedded in a matrix of cobalt (see Carbides, cemented carbides). 

Niobium carbide is used as a component of hard metals, eg, mixtures of metal carbides that are cemented with cobalt, iron, and nickel. Along with tantalum carbide, niobium carbide is added to impart toughness and shock and erosion resistance. The spiraling rise in the price of tantalum has spurred the development of a hafnium carbide—niobium carbide substitute for tantalum carbide (68). These cemented carbides are used for tool bits, drill bits, shovel teeth, and other wear-resistant components turbine blades and as dies in high pressure apparatus (see Carbides). 

Tertiary amines are also effective as accelerators in cobalt redox systems to advance the cure rate (Eig. 6). Hardness development measured by Shore D or Barcol D634-1 penetrometer can be used to demonstrate this benefit, which is useful in increasing mold turnover at ambient temperatures. 

High hardness (molybdenum base) cobalt high speed steels ... 

Cemented carbides belong to a class of hard, wear-resistant, refractory materials ia which the hard carbides of Group 4—6 (IVB—VIB) metals are bound together or cemented by a soft and ductile metal biader, usually cobalt or nickel. Although the term cemented carbide is widely used ia the United States, these materials are better known iatemationally as hard metals (see also Refractories Refractory coatings Refractory fibers). 

Hardness (qv), which determines the resistance of a material to abrasion and deformation, is affected not only by composition but also by porosity and microstmcture. Higher cobalt content and larger carbide grain size reduce hardness and abrasion resistance but iacrease the toughness of cemented carbides. The trade-off of abrasion resistance and toughness enables the cemented carbide manufacturer to tailor these materials to a wide variety of metal-cutting and nonmetal-cutting appHcations. 

The impetus for the synthesis of WC and subsequent development of cemented carbides came from the wire drawing industry where the hard metals are stUl used. The most commonly used grade is WC-6 wt % Co with medium grain size (1—2 p.m). Compositions having higher cobalt content are used in drawing tubes, rods, and bars. 

Carbides of the Iron Group Metals. The carbides of iron, nickel, cobalt, and manganese have lower melting points, lower hardness, and different stmctures than the hard metallic materials. Nonetheless, these carbides, particularly iron carbide and the double carbides with other transition metals, are of great technical importance as hardening components of alloy steels and cast iron. 

The hardness on the basal plane of the cobalt depends on the orientation and extends between 70 and 250 HK. Cobalt is used in high temperature alloys of the superaHoy type because of its resistance to loss of properties when heated to faidy high temperatures. Cobalt also has good work-hardening characteristics, which contribute to the interest in its use in wear alloys. 

Abrasive wear is encountered when hard particles, or hard projections on a counter-face, are forced against and moved relative to a surface. In aUoys such as the cobalt-base wear aUoys which contain a hard phase, the abrasion resistance generaUy increases as the volume fraction of the hard phase increases. Abrasion resistance is, however, strongly influenced by the size and shape of the hard-phase precipitates within the microstmcture, and the size and shape of the abrading species (see Abrasives). 

The abrasion resistance of cobalt-base alloys generally depends on the hardness of the carbide phases and/or the metal matrix. For the complex mechanisms of soHd-particle and slurry erosion, however, generalizations cannot be made, although for the soHd-particle erosion, ductihty may be a factor. For hquid-droplet or cavitation erosion the performance of a material is largely dependent on abiUty to absorb the shock (stress) waves without microscopic fracture occurring. In cobalt-base wear alloys, it has been found that carbide volume fraction, hence, bulk hardness, has Httie effect on resistance to Hquid-droplet and cavitation erosion (32). Much more important are the properties of the matrix. 

Cobalt compounds can be classified as relatively nontoxic (33). There have been few health problems associated with workplace exposure to cobalt. The primary workplace problems from cobalt exposure are fibrosis, also known as hard metal disease (34,35), asthma, and dermatitis (36). Finely powdered cobalt can cause siUcosis. There is Htfle evidence to suggest that cobalt is a carcinogen in animals and no epidemiological evidence of carcinogenesis in humans. The LD q (rat) for cobalt powder is 1500 mg/kg. The oral LD q (rat) for cobalt(II) acetate, chloride, nitrate, oxide, and sulfate are 194, 133, 198, 1700, 5000, and 279 mg/kg, respectively the intraperitoneal LD q (rat) for cobalt(III) oxide is 5000 mg/kg (37). 

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