Fig. 2

Shrinkage curve for powder compacts of various compositions: Ti64 (black line), TiH2 (red line), Ti64-40wt%TiC (blue line) and TiH2-40wt%TiC (purple line) during vacuum heating in a high-temperature dilatometer (a), Shrinkage curve of sintered MMC Ti-40 wt% TiC during post- sintering hot pressing (b), and shrinkage curve of sintered MMC Ti64-40 wt% TiC during post- sintering hot pressing (c).