Reconstruction of three-dimensional microstructures of TiB phase in a powder metallurgy titanium alloy using montage serial sectioning

Three-dimensional (3D) microstructures of TiB phase in a powder metallurgy Ti–6Al–4V–1.7B alloy processed using two different routes are reconstructed from large-area high-resolution montage serial sections. Visualizations of the 3D microstructures are used to determine the effects of the processing route on the morphology, anisotropy, and spatial distributions of TiB particles.