Solute partitioning in TiAl/Ti3Al alloys

Over the last few years there have been intense research and development efforts on two-phase alloys based on (γ) TiAl + (α2) Ti3Al; the goal being to develop alloys for aerospace and, possibly, automotive applications. Two-phase alloys have been studied which contain numerous elemental additions, the more common ones of which are W, Mo, Nb, Cr, W, V, Si, Mn, Ta, C and B. These have been studied both for their phase stability and to determine their monotonic and cycling loading response both at low and high temperature. Although the mechanical properties and physical behavior of these alloys have been studied in detail, there is surprisingly little published information on the distribution of these alloying additions between the two phases. Here the authors report a short study on two recently developed alloys concerning how some of these elemental additions partition between the two phases