ABSTRACTMechanism for the hardening of two-phase Ni3Al-Ni3V intermetallic alloy to which 2 at.% Ta was added in different substitution manners for Ni, Al and V was presented, based on the microstructural observation, alloying behavior and lattice properties of the additive in the constituent phases. The hardening behavior was explained in terms of solid solution hardening in which the mixture rule in the volume fraction of the two constituent phases and the atomic size misfit evaluated from the changes of the lattice parameters were incorporated. Consequently, the hardening for the alloys in which the additives were substituted for Ni and V was attributed to solid solution hardening. On the other hand, the hardening for the alloy in which the additive was substituted for Al was attributed to the hardening due to microstructural refining in addition to the solid solution hardening.
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