PDC Cutter combines the hardness, wear resistance, and thermal conductivity of diamond with the strength and impact resistance of carbide.
Standard PDC Cutter is ideal for soft to medium-hard drilling, offering high impact toughness and thermal stability up to 750℃ for two minutes. It comes in flat or grooved surfaces, customizable to user preferences including grooving, grinding, polishing, and chamfering. Special shapes and customization are available.
PDC Cutter is a super-hard composite of diamond and cemented carbide, formed under ultra-high pressure and temperature. Boasting high hardness, wear resistance, and weldability, it's an eco-friendly alternative to traditional alloy tools, reducing resource consumption and environmental pollution, such as metal dust. Its surface, sintered from various diamond powder sizes, provides durability while the tungsten-cobalt carbide base ensures toughness, facilitating brazing and welding to tools. It's ideal for crafting cutting tools, drill bits, and other wear-resistant tools.
PDC (Polycrystalline Diamond Compact) cutters are cutting tools used in various industries, primarily in drilling applications. These cutters consist of a layer of polycrystalline diamond (PCD) bonded to a tungsten carbide substrate. The combination of hardness and wear resistance of diamond with the toughness of tungsten carbide makes PDC cutters suitable for a range of applications including oil and gas drilling, mining, geothermal drilling, construction, water well drilling, coal mining, etc.
Cutters are produced through a synthesis of elevated temperatures and pressures, forming what is known as a PDC (polycrystalline diamond compact) cutter. Man-made diamonds can be cultivated within a remarkably short time frame, ranging from 5 to 10 minutes. This high-speed diamond generation is the reason why a fixed cutter bit is sometimes referred to as a diamond drill bit.
The manufacturing process involves the combination of a carbide substrate and diamond grit. The compact is shaped under extreme conditions, with temperatures reaching around 2800 degrees and pressures soaring to approximately 1,000,000 psi. In this process, a cobalt alloy serves as a catalyst, facilitating the sintering of the carbide and diamond components. The cobalt plays a crucial role in bonding these materials together.
As the assembly undergoes the cooling phase, a notable discrepancy emerges: the tungsten carbide contracts at a rate 2.5 times faster than the diamond. Effectively managing this stress, akin to various aspects of drill bit design, is deemed proprietary knowledge, often safeguarded as Intellectual Property.