Composite wire for forming wear resistant coatings, and method of manufacture

摘要

The composite wire of the present invention has a malleable metal sheath swaged around a core formed of a uniform particulate mixture including titanium, preferably as an alloy thereof containing at least 65% by weight titanium, and carbon, the amount by weight of titanium present being from about 8 to 24% of the total weight of all the metal in the composite wire and the amount of carbon present in the mixture being at least sufficient to react with substantially all of the titanium to form titanium carbide.