The critical pressure and impeding pressure of Al evaporation during induction skull melting processing of TiAl

In this article, two key pressures, the critical pressure P _crit and the impeding pressure P _impe of elemental evaporation, are defined and studied based on the calculation relationship between the evaporation loss rate N _m and the chamber pressure P during melting of titanium-aluminum alloys. When the chamber pressure is below P _crit or above P _impe, N _m tends to the maximum or the minimum value and remains almost unchanged. However, if P _crit<P<P _impe, with the increase of the chamber pressure, N _m declines sharply. A method has been put forward to calculate P _crit and P _impe of Al evaporation in a Ti-XAl (at pct) (X=25 to 50) melt. The calculation result shows that P _crit or P _impe is a second-order function of the molar percentage of Al and the melt temperature.