Journal
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 579, Issue -, Pages 553-557Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2013.07.097
Keywords
Titanium alloys; Powder metallurgy; Grain refinement; Sintering
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- Australian Research Council (ARC)
- Queensland Smart Future Fellowships Scheme (Early Career)
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A small addition of boron (B) changes the morphology of the alpha-Ti laths in as-sintered Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al to near equiaxed alpha-Ti grains and increases the number density of the resulting a-Ti grains by up to six folds. TiB forms at about 700 degrees C during heating to the isothermal sintering temperature and more than 90% of the TiB particles were found inside the a-Ti grains. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was used to identify the orientation relationships (ORs) between the TiB and alpha-Ti phases. Their exact ORs are affected by both the chemistry of the alloy and the processing conditions. The modification of the alpha-Ti laths and the substantial increase in the number density of the alpha-Ti grains are attributed to the enhanced heterogeneous nucleation of alpha-Ti on TiB due to the identified specific ORs and excellent lattice matches between these two phases. In addition, there exists a unique peritectoid reaction between beta-Ti and TiB during the subsequent cooling after isothermal sintering by which beta-Ti + TiB -> alpha-Ti, which may have contributed to the enhanced heterogeneous nucleation of a-Ti on TiB. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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