“…Although MMCs are promising materials for the chemical and process industries, little attention has been paid to their properties owing to their high melting temperature, poor wettability, and density mismatch between the reinforcement and metal matrix [10,17] . Typically, steel matrix composites are reinforced with ceramic particles, such as carbides (titanium carbide (TiC), SiC, WC), borides (TiB 2 ), and oxides (Al 2 O 3 , ZrO 2 ) [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] . TiC particles can be considered as suitable reinforcements for steel matrix composites owing to their high hardness, low density, good wettability with steel, chemical inertness, and high melting point [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] .…”