Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2011
The effects of solute and vacancy segregation on APB migration in Ti3Al, and their dependence on composition, have been investigated by using a phase-field simulation in which vacancy distribution is taken into account. Al-atoms are depleted and vacancies segregate at APB in stoichiometric Ti3Al (Ti-25Al), whereas Al-atoms segregate and vacancies are depleted in Alrich one (Ti-28Al). The simulation indicates that APB in Ti3Al migrates much faster in Ti-25Al than in Ti-28Al with the effect of vacancy segregation whereas it migrates slightly faster in Ti-28Al than in Ti-25Al in the absence of the effect of vacancy segregation.