Wear resistant compound body

摘要

A wear resistant compound body is disclosed which is comprised of a metallic basic material and has a wear resistant zone which includes hard substance and/or hard metal particles in addition to the basic material. The basic material is composed of 0.001 to 1.5 weight percent carbon, 0.5 to 8 weight percent boron, 1 to 8 weight percent niobium, 0.2 to 6 weight percent chromium, 0 to 30 weight percent nickel, 0 to 10 weight percent manganese, 0 to 6 weight percent vanadium, 0 to 5 weight percent molybdenum, 0 to 5 weight percent silicon, the remainder being iron. Also disclosed is a casting process for producing the compound body.