Preparation and Properties of Ti-47Al-2Cr-2Nb-0.15B Alloy by Powder Metallurgy Route

• Published in: Materials science forum Vol. 817; pp. 615 - 620
• Main Authors: Wu, Jie, Cui, Yu You, Lu, Zheng Guan, Xu, Lei, Yang, Rui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pfaffikon Trans Tech Publications Ltd 01.04.2015
• Subjects: Aluminides; Intermetallic compounds; Intermetallics; Near net shaping; Powder metallurgy; Surface chemistry; Titanium aluminides; Titanium base alloys; Titanium compounds; Vacuum Degassing; Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP); Powder metallurgy; TiAl
• ISSN: 0255-5476; 1662-9752; 1662-9752
• DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.817.615

Ti-47Al-2Cr-2Nb-0.15B alloy is a typical γ-TiAl alloy, and powder metallurgy (PM) as a near-net shape method was used to prepare it in this article. Clean pre-alloyed powders were prepared by argon gas atomization, and TiAl alloy was prepared by hot isostatic pressing (HIP) at 1150 °C and 1230 °C. However, surface contamination is inevitable due to chemical reactions with the residual O2 in the vacuum chamber during gas atomization, or due to physical adsorption of O2 and H2O during storage of the powder at room temperature. Infrared spectrometry was used to study this process. We found that the adsorption of gases is mainly H2O. The adsorbed gas in powders would deteriorate the performance of PM alloy, so a gas protection environment is suggested. Tensile properties of PM TiAl alloy were compared with as-cast alloy. Results showed that PM TiAl alloy had better strength which also had more fine and uniform microstructure.