Effect of Microstructure on Residual Stresses in Sintered Diamond-Metal Composites

As residual stresses can reduce the lifetime of diamond-cobalt composite cutting tools, the composite stress state needs to be understood very well. Thus, the effect of microstructure on the residual stresses was investigated here. Stress measurements were carried out in the cobalt matrix by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Synchrotron-XRD (SXRD). In addition to global stress measurements, investigations of stresses in small cobalt areas near the diamonds were performed by high brilliant synchrotron radiation using different apertures.