PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS IN EXTRUDED NICKEL AND IRON ALUMINIDES

Preferred orientations in both powder-extruded and cast and extruded binary NiAl (≃45 at. pet Al), FeAl (≃40 at. pet Al), and Ni3Al (≃24 at. pet Al) have been characterized by plotting inverse pole figures. The preferred orientation, [111], was observed along the extrusion direction in both powder-extruded and cast and extruded NiAl. Powder-extruded FeAl also exhibited [111] as the preferred orientation in the as-extruded condition. However, [110] was observed to be the preferred orientation in the cast and extruded FeAl and was replaced by a [211] orientation preference upon annealing. Annealing did not change the preferred orientations in NiAl or in powder-extruded FeAl. In contrast to the B2 NiAl and FeAl alloys, the Ll2 Ni3Al alloy exhibited nearly random orientations with only a minor preference for a [111] orientation in the as-extruded condition. © 1990 The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society - ASM International - The Materials Information Society.