PRECIPITATION OF TiC IN METASTABLE β-Ti ALLOY

In order to clarify that the IFP and the “Type 2”α phase are also arising from TiC,ametastable β-Ti alloy was selected for investigation in this work.The results showed that af-ter heating the alloy just below the α+β→β transus temperature and quenching,the TiC lay-er existed at the α/β interface.The morphology of TiC is similar to that of the IFP arisingfrom TiH_2 in the α-β two-phase alloys.The IFP TiC also provided an easy crack path orthe crack initiation sites.The fracture is also identical to that caused by IFP TiH_2.The arceddiffractions(characteristic of “Type 2”α)were found in the selected area diffraction pat-terns of some specimens which had been isothermally aged after solid solution treatment.Theparticles which bring on the arced diffractions may be TiC on the basis of structure and lat-tice parameter analysis,not the so called “Type 2”α phase.