Abstract
Hard metal WC – Co and carbon steel were successfully joined using double layered Cu alloy and amorphous Ni alloy as inert metal and an oil cooling method after brazing. Defects such as cracks and voids were not formed near the bonded zone. This result means that double layered insert metals and oil cooling minimised the residual stress near the bonded zone after brazing. The shear strength of the joints decreased with increasing bond time. The reasons why the shear strength decreased as bond time increased could be many, including shape of the interface, formation and growth of brittle intermetallic compounds, and coarsening of WC particles near the bond zone. The maximum shear strength of the joints was 310 MPa under conditions 0·6 ks bond time and 8 wt-%Co content in the WC hard alloy.
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