文摘
The metastable 尾-Ti alloy, Ti-5553, has been heat-treated to permit a determination of the role of the 蠅 phase on non-classical precipitation of the 伪 phase. Thus, samples containing the athermal 蠅 phase have been up-quenched to 600°C. The observations made are consistent with the activation of the non-classical, pseudo-spinodal, nucleation mechanism, with the 蠅 phase playing essentially no direct role. The 伪/尾 interfacial structures have been shown to exhibit significant degrees of coherency compared with those in conventional 伪/尾 alloys, and implications of this on lowering the interfacial energy, and so the activation for nucleation, are discussed.