Ab Sandvik Coromant

Sandvik Intellectual Property Ab

Sandvik Mining and Construction Tools Ab

Erik Holmstrom

Andreas Blomqvist

Jose Luis Garcia

Jan Engqvist

Linus Von Fieandt

Raluca Brenning

Susanne Norgren

Ioannis Arvanitidis

Mirjam Lilja

David Linder

The present disclosure relates to a method of treating a cutting tool of a cemented carbide or cermet substrate, wherein the cutting tool is subjected to shot peening at a temperature of or above 100° C. The cutting tool typically has a rake face, a flank face and a cutting edge extending therebetween. The shot peening is performed at least on the rake face of the cutting tool. The present disclosure also relates to a cutting tool treated with the method.

Method of treating a cutting tool, and a cutting tool

A cutting tool includes a cemented carbide substrate. The cemented carbide consists of hard constituents in a metallic binder. The hard constituents include WC. The WC content in the cemented carbide is 80-93 wt %. The cemented carbide has Ni and Al, and a Ni content of 3-13 wt %, a weight ratio of Co/Ni<0.33, a weight ratio of Fe/Ni<0.25, a weight ratio of Cr/Ni<0.25 and a weight ratio of 0.02<Al/(Ni+Co+Fe)<0.1. The crack resistance W is defined as the ratio of the load applied on a Vickers hardness indentation and the total crack length of the cracks formed at the corners of the Vickers hardness indentation. The product of the hardness H(rake) at the rake face and the crack resistance W(rake) at the rake face is H(rake)*W(rake)>5000 HV100*N/μm.

Cutting tool

A coated cutting tool has a CVD coated and a substrate of a cemented carbide, wherein the metallic binder in the cemented carbide includes Ni. The CVD coating has an inner layer of TiN and a subsequent layer of TiCN. The C-activity relative to graphite in the metallic binder is lower than 0.15 and an average d electron value of the metallic binder is 7.00-7.43, wherein an interface between the substrate and the inner TiN layer is free of Ti-containing intermetallic phase.

Coated cutting tool

A coated cutting tool has a CVD coating and a substrate of a cemented carbide, wherein the metallic binder in the cemented carbide includes Ni. The CVD coating has an inner layer of TiN and a subsequent layer of TiCN. A C-activity relative to graphite in the metallic binder is lower than 0.15 and an average d electron value of the metallic binder is 7.00-7.43, wherein an interface between the substrate and the inner TiN layer is free of Ti-containing intermetallic phase.

A method of treating a sintered mining insert including cemented carbide includes the step of subjecting the mining insert to a surface hardening process. The surface hardening process is executed at an elevated temperature of or above 100° C. A mining insert is also provided, wherein the HV1 Vickers hardness measurement increase (HV1%) from the surface region, measured as an average of HV1 measurements taken at 100 μm, 200 μm and 300 μm below the surface, compared to the HV1 Vickers hardness measured in the bulk (HV1bulk), is at least 8.05-0.00350×HV1bulk.

Method of treating a mining insert

The present disclosure relates to a cutting tool including a cemented carbide substrate having WC, gamma phase and a binder phase. The substrate is provided with a binder phase enriched surface zone, which is depleted of gamma phase, wherein no graphite and no ETA phase is present in the microstructure and wherein the binder phase is a high entropy alloy.

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Erik Holmstrom