Abstract: To characterize the effects of alloying elements on inclusion dissolution of titanium nitride, the content profiles of elements around TiN/Ti boundary α phase regions in liquid titanium alloys have been experimentally carried out. Four kinds of commercial alloys of CpTi, Ti64, Ti17 and Ti6242 containing differentα stabilizing or β-stabilizing elements are examined through artificially embedding the TiN sponge particle into liquid alloys in VAR conditions. The content profiles of nitrogen and alloying elements around TiN/Ti boundary were measured by WDX and microprobe for as-cast samples. The content profiles of nitrogen and alloying elements around N-containing solid in α Ti region of these alloys show a common features of a steep change. In particular, the content profiles of elements for Ti6242 demonstrate unique change of a more gentle change tendency and further deeper into the alloy matrix. The experiment results show that, the differences among composite effects of alloying elements in different alloys within nitrogen-induced diffusion α region result in different dissolution and diffusion behaviors to overcome the α phase region barriers.

Key words:  titanium nitride inclusion; content profiles; nitrogen; diffusion