Structural relaxation in amorphous Ni-Ti alloys prepared by mechanical alloying

Structural changes in amorphous states during prolonged milling after the completion of amorphization have been investigated through the crystallization behaviors with Ni-Ti alloys of compositions corresponding to the intermetallic compounds. In 33Ni-67Ti, the crystallization to NiTi2 takes place in two steps, a higher crystallization temperature dominating after prolonged milling. In 50Ni-50Ti, structural relaxation leading to the crystallization to NiTi2 and Ni3Ti takes place. In 30Ni-70Ti, which is close to the border of the amorphization range, the initially formed amorphous phase turns into a supersaturated solid solution of Ti in Ni. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science S.A.