“…Carbides characterised by high specific density tend to settle to the bottom of the melt pool, whereas the particles of the hard phase with lower density concentrate in the upper zone, slightly below the cladding weld. Many research works are concerned with the thorough investigation of the structure and the abrasive wear resistance of deposited composite layers that have the nickel alloy-based matrix containing the addition of tungsten carbide [ 10 , 11 ], chromium carbide [ 12 , 13 ] and titanium carbide [ 4 , 14 , 15 ]. However, significantly fewer publications focus on composite claddings reinforced with particles of the remaining carbides of transition metals, e.g., ZrC, HfC, NbC, TaC and MoC, or synthetic metal–diamond sinters.…”