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[en] In a recent article, the creep behavior of a near-gamma Ti-48Al-2Nb-2Cr (at.%) cast alloy was investigated. The results and analyses are criticized as follows: Firstly, it is difficult to measure strain rates slower than 10-8s-1 by conducting creep tests for 'only' 100 hours, since this corresponds to strains below 0.0036. Secondly, the activation energies for creep at 103 and 172 MPa calculated by the authors are incorrect. At 103 MPa, the activation energy for creep is ∼240 kJmol-1 rather than 300 kJmol-1 (data from Fig. 2). At 172 MPa, the stress exponents are clearly different from each other at the three temperatures; hence, an activation energy for creep associated with a single deformation mechanism cannot be determined. Thirdly, the authors claim that in the region where the stress exponent, n, is equal to three, 'dislocation pipe diffusion is controlling a stress-assisted diffusional creep mechanism...'. This is most likely incorrect since, when a diffusional creep mechanism (Nabarro-Herring/Coble) is dominating the deformation behavior, no dislocation motion is expected; as a consequence, the dislocation density should remain constant with applied stress in the low applied stress regime. In conclusion, it is difficult to determine the creep mechanism(s) of this alloy based on the data presented
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