“…Newly developed alloys are often compared with this alloy. Unlike in other studies where full substitution of vanadium, an isomorphous beta stabiliser, is done with either iron, chromium, manganese or other cheaper eutectoid stabilisers [22,[29][30][31], the partial replacement of vanadium with iron adopted in this study was aimed at suppressing the formation of intermetallic compound which is the equilibrium phase that is formed when eutectoid formers such as iron, chromium, manganese, nickel are used as beta stabilisers. It was reported that the use of both isomorphous and eutectoid beta stabilising elements such as iron and molybdenum could suppress the formation of intermetallic compound in beta titanium alloys [32].…”