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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2006
Formation and morphology of D022 compound Ni3V in γ face-centered cubic (fcc) matrix phase were investigated to understand fundamentals for controlling microstructure of alloys strengthened by Kurnakov-type geometrically close-packed (GCP) intermetallics. The D022 phase with plate-shaped morphology coherently precipitates in the γ + D022 two-phase region above the T0 line in Ni–V binary alloys. Due to the negative and positive lattice misfits along the a-axis and the c-axis of D022 (δa < 0 < δc), an invariant line exists between the two phases, and the morphology of D022 phase is changeable by controlling the two factors; the misfit strain ratio δc/δa is a decisive factor to determine the habit plane defined by the invariant line and one of the a-axes of D022, whereas the magnitude of |δa| is responsible for the shape of D022 phase with either prism or plate. These findings were extended to Ni–Fe–Nb–V system by partial replacement of Ni and V with Fe and Nb, respectively.