Phase diagram of the Co-VC-NbC system

Conclusions The eutectic in the Co-VC system corresponds to the composition with 14% VC and a temperature of 1340 ± 20°C and the maximum solubility of vanadium carbide in cobalt is 6%. The Co-VC section is not a quasibinary section of the Co-V-C phase diagram.The eutectic in the Co-NbC system melts at 1360°C and contains 11–12% NbC.The as-cast alloys of the Co-VC-NbC system are in the metastable two-phase condition and the only carbide phase is a carbide of complex composition which is a three-component solid solution of vanadium and niobium monocarbides.The fusibility diagram of the equilibrium phase diagram of the Co-VC-NbC system is characterized by the four-phase eutectic equilibrium L Co + VC + NbC with the point of the ternary eutectic at 1330 ± 20°C and a composition of 11% VC, 4% NbC, and 85% Co. The Co-VC-NbC equilibrium phase diagram does not contain ternary compounds and the equilibrium phases are cobalt- and vanadium- and niobium carbide-base solid solutions. The total volume share of the carbide constituents of the ternary eutectic somewhat exceeds the share of carbide phases in the boundary eutectics Co-VC and Co-NbC.The total solubility of the carbides in cobalt does not exceed 2–3%.Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya. No. 3(315), pp. 80–87, March, 1989.