COST 507 - Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
COST 507 - Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
COST 507 - Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
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Summary of Final Report: Project: A4<br />
A4<br />
Experimental Investigations and Thermodynamic Modelling of<br />
the Constitution of Quaternary Al-Ti-Metal-Nonmetal Systems<br />
Julius Schuster and Peter Rogl<br />
Institut für Physikalische Chemie Univ. Wien, Währingerstr. 42,<br />
A-1090 Wien, Austria<br />
The results achieved have been presented in form of several manuscripts and<br />
publications. Active research cooperation existed throughout the project with groups<br />
D4, Dll.Il.andUKl.<br />
l.System Ti-Al-C-N. Thermodynamic calculations of the boun<strong>da</strong>ry systems Ti-Al-C<br />
and Ti-Al-N revealed consistency of the observed phase equilibria with the<br />
experimental results obtained in <strong>COST</strong> <strong>507</strong>-round I. For completion of the<br />
investigations started in Cost<strong>507</strong>-I phase equilibria were investigated experimentally at<br />
1375°C. For alloys up to 50 at.%Ti 16 four-phase equilibria were observed or are<br />
likely to exist. A scheme of the existing three- and four-phase was established. The two<br />
N-phases showed no solubility for the corresponding nonmetal. Although the two H-<br />
phases form a complete solid solution at 1480°C, there is a miscibility gap in the<br />
nitrogen-rich region. For the region with more than 50 at% Ti a vertical section<br />
Ti 3 AlCxNi. x was investigated revealing a novel quaternary perovskite phase P(t) with<br />
tetragonal lattice distortion. At temperatures below 1200°C a Re 3 B type phase Ti 3 AIN<br />
was discovered which proved to be isotypic with Zr 3 AlN. These results were discussed<br />
in detail in publications 1,2.<br />
2.System Ti-Cu-AI-N. As there were no <strong>da</strong>ta available on the Ti-Cu-N boun<strong>da</strong>ry<br />
system a reinvestigation was necesssary in terms of an isothermal section at 850°C<br />
revealing a novel phase Ti 3 CuN with hitherto unknown crystal structure (Ref. 3).<br />
Based on these results as well as on new critical assessments of the Ti-Cu-Al (Ref. 4)<br />
and Ti-Al-N (Ref. 5) ternaries, the major part of the Ti-Al-Cu-N quaternary was<br />
investigated experimentally at 850°C employing XRD, SEM-EDX and LOM (Ref. 6).<br />
The composition of the quaternary eta phase was characterized with respect to its<br />
metal ratio by SEM-EDX. A slight deficiency in N is likely (Ref. 7), From the<br />
thermodynamic <strong>da</strong>ta of the binary boun<strong>da</strong>ry systems as well as from the evaluated<br />
phase equilibria in the ternary boun<strong>da</strong>ry systems thermodynamic <strong>da</strong>ta could be<br />
extracted for the ternary boun<strong>da</strong>ry phases and the quaternary eta-phase (Refs. 8, 9).<br />
Employing these <strong>da</strong>ta we could prove and amend consistency in the entire quaternary<br />
system Ti-Al-Cu-N.<br />
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