Mechanic-chemistry of tungsten carbide

In the current work results on tungsten carbide nanocrystalline structure generation study under high-energy deformation and W-C with Ni mechanical alloying are presented. Mechanical alloying of W and C was worked out in planetary ball mill with water cooling in argon environment. X-ray diffraction examination of these samples were carried out in diffractometer DRON-3.0 with application of CoKα- and CuKα- radiations. With help of X-ray phase analysis in the examined time range of mechanical activation (1-10 min) of powder mixtures with content (W-C)-70 mass. % Ni the WC phase does not found. The observed broadening of W reflexes on diffract-grams in the course of activation time is explaining by reagents' grain size decrease, micro-tensions accumulation under deformations, concentration heterogeneousness generation