Effect of carbon on microstructures of Ti-45Al-3Fe-2Mo-xC alloy
(State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China)
Abstract: The effect of carbon addition on the microstructures of TiAl-based alloy (Ti-45Al-3Fe-2Mo) was studied. The proportion of β/B2 phase reduces with the content of carbon increasing, while the colony size increases. With increasing the carbon content, the lamellar spacing first decreases from 267 nm (Ti-45Al-3Fe-2Mo) to 237 nm (Ti-45Al-3Fe-2Mo-0.3C) and 155 nm (Ti-45Al-3Fe-2Mo-0.5C), but then increases to 230 nm (Ti-45Al-3Fe-2Mo-1.0C) with further increase in C level, which is affected by the inhibition of carbon atom and precipitation of carbides at the lamellar interface. Precipitation of carbides shows a response to aging time at 800 °C. P-type carbides grow up at the boundaries and near the dislocation areas with the prolonging of aging time. And these carbides are projected different morphology in different beam directions (BD). The effects of these microstructural modi？cations were examined and the observations were discussed.
Key words: TiAl alloy; carbon doping; microstructure; carbide