a b s t r a c tAs-cast nanostructured eutectoid Fe 28 Ni 18 Mn 33 Al 21 , which consists of $50 nm wide (Ni, Al)-rich B2 and (Fe, Mn)-rich fcc aligned phases, was annealed at 1173 K for various times up to 250 h in order to produce a wide range of phase widths (up to 2.5 lm) over which to evaluate the mechanical properties. The coarsening kinetics over these two orders of magnitude change could be described by r 2 À r 2 o = kt, where r is the phase width after time t at 1173 K, r o is initial phase width, and k is a constant. The yield strength, r y , was found to follow a Hall-Petch-type relationship, i.e. r y = r o + k y k À1/2 , where k is the fcc phase width, r o is the strength of the single-phase material, and k y is a constant. Interestingly, the work-hardening rate also roughly followed a k À1/2 relationship, while the elongation to failure increased as k increased from failure before yielding in the as-cast material to $7% for the material with the largest k values.