The high temperature ductile deformation behavior of TiC sintered body with various content of Cr
3C
2 addition was investigated. The results show that the descending trend of the effective conductivity of TiC/Ni
3Al FGMs with the numbers of shock cycles relates closely to the ductile deformation behavior of TiC, and the vertical cracks appearing on the TiC surface is caused by large radial compressive stresses.