Raynova, Stiliana (Stella) RoussevaCao, PengGabbitas, BrianZhang, Deliang2008-11-202008-11-202006Raynova, S., Cao, P., Gabbitas, B. & Zhang, D. (2006). Effect of milling parameters on microstructure of Ti/Al composite powder produced by discus milling. International Journal of Modern Physics B, 20(25/27), 4679- 4684.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1413The motivation of this research is to develop a process for producing Ti/Al composite powders that enable synthesis of a single-phase TiAl intermetallic bulk material, which is then used as a target for physical vapour deposition (PVD) coating. This study reports the effects of milling time, amount of process control agent (PCA) added as well as the powder-to-medium ratio on the microstructure of the Ti/Al composite powder. Optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used to evaluate the level of mixing and the resulting powder particle size. X-ray diffraction analysis and differential thermal analysis were used for determining the phase constituents and the solid state reaction temperature of the as-milled powders.enTiAlmechanical alloyingdiscus millingJournal Article10.1142/S0217979206041884