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Characteristics of the failure of tool materials

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Tool materials for metal cutting tools, with hardness exceeding 62 HRC as a rule, are destroyed, in distinction to most structural steels and alloys, by brittle failure without any noticeable macroscopic deformation. The article examines the characteristics of such failure.

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A paper based on the present article was read at the first conference of metal scientists held at Penza, September 23–24, 1993 (discussion article)

Moscow Technical State University “Stankin. ” Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 4, pp. 17–22, April, 1994.

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Kremnev, L.S. Characteristics of the failure of tool materials. Met Sci Heat Treat 36, 206–213 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01400804

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