A good tungsten carbide manufacturer can change the characteristics of their tungsten carbide in a great number of ways.

HIP is hot isostatic pressure.  Ordinarily tungsten carbide is rammed in a mold with the pressure all coming from the direction of the ram.  HIP is a means of applying pressure evenly from all sides of the tungsten carbide.

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Tungsten carbide as used here means WC grains in a cobalt binder.  Cobalt is softer than the tungsten carbide grains so the more cobalt you have the softer the overall materials will be.  This may or may not relate to how hard the individual grains are.

If the grains are too large and there is too much Cobalt then the carbide will move and deform under pressure.  One of the major strengths of carbide is its ability to handle pressure or compressive force.   If it is too soft it loses that ability.

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Electrical Conductivity - Tungsten carbide is in the same range as tool steel and carbon steel while Cermet II grades conduct more like glass.

Specifying a large WC particle size and a high percentage of Cobalt will yield a highly shock resistant (and high impact strength) part.

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Micrograin and nanograin tungsten carbides are becoming popular and rightly so.  They do work well.  The tighter grains can mean better wear and a tougher tungsten carbide.  Typically they wear longer, retain a better edge longer and polish better.

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Bigger grains made carbide tougher and smaller grains made it harder. By varying grain size and cobalt % you can make carbide a lot tougher or a lot harder.

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We are talking about cemented tungsten carbide.  This is tungsten carbide grains cemented together by cobalt.  Cobalt is the binder.  As you get more cobalt you get a softer grade that is more impact resistant.  If you have less cobalt you get better wear but the part will break more easily when hit.  Generally as you go from a minimum of 2% cobalt to a maximum of 20% cobalt you get a part that is harder to break but also a part that will wear out faster.

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Grades C-5 to C-8 commonly have added tungsten carbides such as Tantalum tungsten carbide and Titanium tungsten carbide.  This is partly because of the problems cutting iron based materials such as steel and may not have any advantages in cutting other materials.  Adding titanium tungsten carbide gives better hardness at high temperature as well as greater wear resistance and resistance to cratering.  Adding 'tantalum tungsten carbide increases hardness while it lowers strength and wear resistance.

In the very early days of carbide you made carbide tougher or harder by changing the amount of Cobalt in the binder.  Cobalt is metal and softer than carbide grains so more cobalt made it tougher and less made it harder. Then people learned how to change the grain size.

As a practical matter, the production of extremely sharp, acutely angled cutting edges dictates that a fine grained carbide be used in blade applications (in order to prevent large nicks and rough edges). Given the use of carbide which has an average grain size of 1 micron or less, carbide blade performance therefore becomes largely influenced by the % of Cobalt and the edge geometry specified. Cutting applications that involve moderate to high shock loads are best dealt with by specifying 12-15 percent Cobalt and edge geometry having an included edge angle of about 40º. Applications that involve lighter loads and place a premium on long blade life are good candidates for carbide that contains 6-9 percent cobalt and has an included edge angle in the range of 30-35º.

What you can do is mix Cobalt % with grain sizes and get carbide that is both tough and hard so you get long wear without breakage.

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The finer the WC grain size (and therefore the more WC surface area that has to be coated with Cobalt) and the less Cobalt used, the harder and more wear-resistant the resulting part will become. To get the best performance from carbide as a blade material, it is important to avoid premature edge failures caused by chipping or breakage, while simultaneously assuring optimum wear resistance.

Grain size: Smaller grains give better wear and larger grains give better impact resistance.   Very fine grain tungsten carbides give very high hardness while extra coarse grains are best in extremely severe wear and impact applications such as rock drilling and mining applications.

If you add more Cobalt to large grains then you get even more toughness.  However there is a limit to how tough you can make carbide or want to make carbide.  If you get it too “tough” then it is too soft.  Remember we are using the term ‘tough’ here as the opposite of hard.

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This is a graph of 23 different grades of modern carbide. In the left graph you can see by the Co% line on the bottom that as co% goes up hardness drops and toughness stays sort of the same.  This is because grain size differs. In the middle graph we increase grain size and hardness drops while toughness sort of drops.