Tungsten Carbide Surface Integrity: Controlling Microcracks, Residual Stress, and Surface Finish from Grinding to Polishing
A cracked carbide die costs thousands. Not because of the raw material, but because nobody caught the subsurface damage until it failed in production. Tungsten carbide doesn’t forgive sloppy grinding. At 1400 to 1800 HV, it’s brutally hard, but that hardness comes with brittleness. One wrong parameter and you’ve got a network of microcracks hiding […]