Abstract. The phase decomposition phenomenon is found in the hexagonal ω-phase of the Ti−Zr system under high pressure. The ω → ω 1 + ω 2 decomposition of the equiatomic TiZr alloy occurred due to long thermobaric treatment at P = 5.5±0.6 GPa and T = 710±30 K. The chemical compositions of the ω 1 -and ω 2 -phases recovered to ambient conditions were estimated from the Xray data to be around Ti 20 Zr 80 and Ti 83 Zr 17 . The experimental data were used to calculate the mixing energy and the top of the decomposition curve in the isobaric T−C diagram of this system. We find that the equilibrium T−C phase diagram of the Ti−Zr system at pressures above ~8 GPa is of the eutectoid type with the high-temperature β-phase and the low-temperature ω 1 -and ω 2 -phases.
IntroductionTwo modifications are known for titanium and zirconium at atmospheric pressure, the low-temperature hexagonal close-packed (hcp) α-phase and the high-temperature body-centered cubic (bcc) β-phase. Both phases of the Ti−Zr system form continuous solid solutions, and characteristic of the T−C phase diagram is the monotectic point located at 52 at.% Zr [1] and 852 K [2]. Applied pressure induces a transition of the α-phase to the hexagonal ω-phase both in elemental Ti and Zr [3][4][5] and in the binary Ti−Zr alloys [2,6]. The ω-phase recovered from the high-pressure experiments at room and moderate temperatures has also been reported to form continuous solid solutions [2,6]. The ω-phase solid solutions showed the concentration dependence of the specific volume close to the Vegard's law, and the reported values of the specific volumes were by less than 1 % above the straight line drawn between the volumes of pure elements.Earlier, the pressure effect on the phase diagram has been studied by means of the differential thermal analysis (DTA) carried out on the equiatomic TiZr alloy up to 7 GPa [2]. There were plotted the lines of the isoconcentrational α↔β and β↔ω transformations. The α−β transformation had a hysteresis of 70 K whereas the hysteresis of the β−ω transformation was close to zero, and the parameters of the α−β−ω triple point determined by DTA were as low as P = 4.9 GPa and T = 733 K. In contrast, the hysteresis of the