Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
An extremely fine lamellar structure formed in a Ti-48at.%Al alloy, which was heat treated in the high-temperature α-Ti (disordered hcp) single phase field (1683K), followed by ice water quenching, has been examined by high-resolution and analytical transmission electron microscopy. The microstracture consists of thin plates of ordered α2-Ti3Al (D019: ordered version of hcp) and γ-TiAl (Ll0: ordered version of fcc) phases, and interfaces of lamellae are atomically flat in a wide range. From detailed analyses of the microstructure and composition in nm scale, the α→γ phase transformation, which occurs during quenching and produces the extremely fine α2-γ lamellae, has been discussed.