A reduced pure iron powder was used as a basic material in the production of wear resistant iron - molybdenum carbide composites. Content of powders of milled eutectic white iron and molybdenum or ferromolybdenum was varied as well as the heating conditions of porous preforms prior to hot forging. In the course of the preheating the particles of cast iron fuse and wet the particles of iron and molybdenum (or ferromolybdenum). This is accompanied by carbon diffusion from cast iron particles into the depth of particles of matrix and molybdenous addition as well as by the formation of fine molybdenum carbides, which are variable in stoichiometric composition. The heating conditions' optimization together with the performance of the normalization provided for homogenization of material on carbon as well as for absence of "soft" zones poored in carbon. Diffusive pores near carbide particles are not observed. Excessive intermetallic phase at the grain boundaries of iron matrix does not precipitate. Hot forging in the presence of the liquid phase makes possible composites with high wear and thermal shock resistance resulting in a possibility of crack-free quenching in water.
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