<正>The self-propagating high-temperature syn-thesis method was used to synthesize the TiAl intermetalliccompound,and two kinds of synthesis modes were studied inthis paper.The results show that the thermal explosion modeis suitable for the synthesis of TiAI,the pre-heating tempera-ture has a great influence on the synthesis.Microstructurestudy show that the density of the sample fabricated by thermal explosion mode is higher than that fabricated by propa-gating mode.