Excellent work in Estonia on wear

摘要

Last but by no means least of the Orlando extracts, the paper from Irma Hussainova of the Department of Materials Technology, Tallinn Technical University, is representative of excellent research now originating in Estonia. On this occasion it covered the Effect of composition, microstructure and service conditions on tribological performance of cermets. Parenthetically, the same author was also a major contributor to two related posters, entitled The structure and properties forming in boron carbide/aluminium composites during processing and Processing and tribological properties of chromium carbide based cermets. In these investigations your reporter was pleased to see the word "cermet" used in its true sense, as a combination of a ceramic and a metal - like WC/Co - rather than its hijacked pseudo-meaning of "TiCN-based hardmetal".