Abstract It is now well known that the room temperature tensile yield strength (σy), fracture strength (σf), and ductility (δ) of TiAl alloys increase with decreasing the colony size (d) of the fully lamellar (FL) structure. Therefore searching a cost-effective approach to refine the coarse FL structure becomes critical to the engineering application of this material. In this study, we report our recent observation that, merely by rapid heat treatment, a FL structure with d=500 μm in a TiAl alloy of Ti–48Al–2Cr (at%) could be refined to a FL structure with d being as fine as 10 μm. No thermomechanical processing such as canned forging and hot extrusion, as done in previous studies, was required. Mechanical testing in tension shows that with the refinement from 500 to 10 μm, the room temperature yield strength increased from 330 to 610 MPa, fracture strength from 415 to 825 MPa and ductility from 0.7 to 3.3%, although the fracture toughness decreased only slightly from 24 to 19 MPa m1/2.
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