“…Several studies were performed on in-situ composites utilising Ti together with reactants such as TiB 2 , B 4 C, B, C, and BN to form reinforcing phases such as TiB, TiB 2 , TiC, TiN by using reactive sintering, reactive hot pressing, spark plasma sintering, self-propagating high-temperature synthesis, and liquid metallurgical routes (Radhakrishna Bhat et al, 2002;Kim et al, 2013Kim et al, , 2011Feng et al, 2005;Atri et al, 1999;Chaudhari and Bauri, 2013;Wei et al, 2013;Panda and Chandran, 2003;Petukhov et al, 2007;Rangaraj et al, 2004;Yang et al, 2013;Yeh and Teng, 2006;Zhan et al, 2009;Contreras et al, 2004;Locci et al, 2006;Xinghong et al, 2002;Yeh and Chen, 2008;Zhang et al, 2013a;Gotman et al, 1998;Olevsky et al, 1996;Wang et al, 2012;Wen et al, 2001;Lu et al, 2002;Li et al, 2001Li et al, , 2015Qin et al, 2011;Das et al, 2014). Within this variety of combinations, Ti-B-N system has been studied by several authors (Rangaraj et al, 2004;Yang et al, 2013;Yeh and Teng, 2006;Olevsky et al, 1996;Li et al, 2001).…”