This payer describes a vertical section Ti-275.Al up to 25 at% Nb in t
he ternary Ti-Al-Nb system. This section is shown to be of fundamental
importance in understanding the origin and relationship between the v
arious phases which constitute the microstructures of an important cla
ss of engineering alloys based on the Ti3Al-Nb system, the alpha(2), B
2 and O phases. In carrying out this work, the presence of two distinc
t forms of the O phase with the same space group and lattice periodici
ty, but different site occupations, has been confirmed.