Weigang Yang, Wenjing Li, Yanxun Mu, Yongfeng Liang, Junpin Lin
{"title":"Effect of powder particle size on microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of network-reinforced TiAl composites","authors":"Weigang Yang, Wenjing Li, Yanxun Mu, Yongfeng Liang, Junpin Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.matlet.2025.139205","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study systematically investigates the effects of matrix powder particle size on the microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of network-reinforced TiAl composites. Sintered samples derived from fine powders exhibit a duplex microstructure comprising γ-TiAl grains and (α<sub>2</sub> + γ) lamellar colonies, whereas those fabricated with coarse particles predominantly display (α<sub>2</sub> + γ) lamellar colonies. Furthermore, the UTS increases from 437.71 MPa to 534.90 MPa as the average particle size rises from 69.3 μm to 143.2 μm. The deformation of these composites is predominantly governed by deformation twinning within the γ-TiAl phase.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":384,"journal":{"name":"Materials Letters","volume":"401 ","pages":"Article 139205"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Materials Letters","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167577X25012352","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
This study systematically investigates the effects of matrix powder particle size on the microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of network-reinforced TiAl composites. Sintered samples derived from fine powders exhibit a duplex microstructure comprising γ-TiAl grains and (α2 + γ) lamellar colonies, whereas those fabricated with coarse particles predominantly display (α2 + γ) lamellar colonies. Furthermore, the UTS increases from 437.71 MPa to 534.90 MPa as the average particle size rises from 69.3 μm to 143.2 μm. The deformation of these composites is predominantly governed by deformation twinning within the γ-TiAl phase.
期刊介绍:
Materials Letters has an open access mirror journal Materials Letters: X, sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review.
Materials Letters is dedicated to publishing novel, cutting edge reports of broad interest to the materials community. The journal provides a forum for materials scientists and engineers, physicists, and chemists to rapidly communicate on the most important topics in the field of materials.
Contributions include, but are not limited to, a variety of topics such as:
• Materials - Metals and alloys, amorphous solids, ceramics, composites, polymers, semiconductors
• Applications - Structural, opto-electronic, magnetic, medical, MEMS, sensors, smart
• Characterization - Analytical, microscopy, scanning probes, nanoscopic, optical, electrical, magnetic, acoustic, spectroscopic, diffraction
• Novel Materials - Micro and nanostructures (nanowires, nanotubes, nanoparticles), nanocomposites, thin films, superlattices, quantum dots.
• Processing - Crystal growth, thin film processing, sol-gel processing, mechanical processing, assembly, nanocrystalline processing.
• Properties - Mechanical, magnetic, optical, electrical, ferroelectric, thermal, interfacial, transport, thermodynamic
• Synthesis - Quenching, solid state, solidification, solution synthesis, vapor deposition, high pressure, explosive