substrate this operation is performed at a temperature sufficient to synthesize tic these agglomerated particles may also be deposited by various hardfacing techniques to obtain tic composite coatings the coatings obtained according to the invention contain a uniform distribution of very fine tic crystals throughout metallic matrix in this example a ferrotitanium alloy is used as the titanium source the ferrotitanium is a hypoeutectic ti fe alloy in a powder form known as chemalloy ti loy 70 34 hp 34 trademark having a following composition wt x ray diffraction xrd analysis shows that a titanium solid solution phase and a feti intermetallic phase are the main constituents of this alloy lonza ks 2 5 trademark graphite powder is used as the carbon source this crystalline substance comprises 99 9 wt carbon iron powder quebec metal powder atomet 95 trademark with particles less than 32 u03bcm in size and containing 0 12 wt carbon and 0 60 wt oxygen was used xrd analysis shows u03b1 fe peaks only ti loy was ball milled in methanol to prevent oxidation for several hours to a 15 u03bcm powder and allowed to dry in room temperature air before dry mixing with iron and graphite to produce a composite material containing 40 vol tic 10 0 grams of a mixture containing.