M Motamedi - department of materials science and engineering tarbiat modares university
H shahverdi - department of materials science and engineering tarbiat modares university
M hamdam momen - department of materials science and metallurgy , tehran university

In this investigation WC-CO coatings were applied on steel substrates, mechanical properties and microstructure of coatings and feedstock powder evaluated by different method such as microhardness testing, ball on disk sliding wear test, scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction.

nanostructured coating, plasma spray, sliding wear, microhardness.