Thermodynamic re-modelling of the ternary Al–Cr–Ti system with refined Al–Cr description

Highlights: • Thermodynamic refinement of the Al–Cr system. • Key experimental investigations of the ternary Al–Cr–Ti alloys. • Thermodynamic modelling of the complete Al–Cr–Ti system. - Abstract: In the present paper, the ternary Al–Cr–Ti and binary constituent Al–Cr systems are thermodynamically re-modelled based on new experimental information reported in the literature within the past few years. Few key experiments were performed with selected ternary alloys in order to complement data on phase equilibria in the composition range of common TiAl-based alloys. Six sample compositions were prepared and analyzed in the as-cast and annealed conditions by means of SEM/EDS, XRD and DTA techniques. The elaborated thermodynamic description was applied to calculate selected phase equilibria as to provide a comparison between calculated and experimental results. The calculations are shown to reproduce the experimental data reasonably well