A systematic evaluation has been made on the magnitude of the positive temperature dependence of strength in Ni3Al as affected by ternary additions of B-subgroup elements. The rate of change in activation energy to provide the mechanical anomaly per one atomic per cent of the solute, dU/dc, is determined for a variety of the ternary additions. It is shown that the larger the valence difference between the parameter change in the compound per one atomic percent of the solute, da/dc, the larger the dU/dC. These are well interpreted in terms of the phase stability concept to determine the relative magnitude of the mechanical anomaly in the Ll2 compounds, in which e/a ratio of the compound and the atomic radius ratio of the components, Re/RA, are the key factors to alter the stability of the phase against other geometrically close packed phases and thereby control the occurrence and the magnitude of the mechanical anomaly. The effect of ternary additions of B-subgroup elements on the rate of solid solution An intermetallic compound Ni3Al is one of the L12 compounds which show an anomalous positive temperature dependence of strength. The compound based on Ni3Al is a major microstructural constituent in commercial nickel base superalloys as precipitates to provide dispersion strengthening, and its volume fraction often reaches 60% or more. In alloy designing the superalloys for an improved high temperature performance, the best utilization of this compound is anticipated, which mechanical properties are known to be strongly affected by ternary alloy substitutions for one of or both of the components.In considering the effect of ternary additions on the mechanical properties of the compound Ni3Al, two factors are important, and they are the solid solution hardening and the magnitude of the positive temperature dependence of strength. Historically a work by Guard and Westbrook(1) was the first attempt on this regard in which the temperature dependence of hardness in Ni3Al as affected by various ternary additions was investigated. Recently the temperature dependence of 0.2% flow stress in Ni3Al with additions of several ternary alloying elements has been investigated by Thornton et a1.(2), Rawlings and StatonBevan(3) and Aoki and Izumi(4). There have been several reports(5)-(8) on the crystallographic orientation dependence of flow stress in single crystalline Ni3Al with small additions of Ti, Nb or W, but in those cases the alloy additions were made in order to suppress the peritectic reaction in the Ni-Al binary