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Processing-microstructure-property correlation in thermo-mechanically processed Ti-6Al-4V alloys: A comparative study between conventional and novel approaches

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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
卷 927, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.167039

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Ti-6Al-4V alloy; Thermomechanical processing; Equiaxed microstructure; Bimodal microstructure; Mechanical properties

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  1. Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, India [YSS/000976]

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Ti-6Al-4V alloy can be improved in performance by thermomechanical processing to tailor its microstructure. This study investigates two different processing routes and finds that a novel approach can generate an equiaxed structure with higher hardness and mechanical properties.
Ti-6Al-4V alloy offers an optimum combination of properties like strength, ductility, toughness, corrosion and fatigue resistance. Interestingly, thermomechanical processing (TMP) appears as an important tech-nique to tailor the microstructure and therefore modifying the properties further. In the present study, two different TMP routes having minor differences in the processing conditions are used. While one of the routes is a conventional one to generate bimodal microstructure, the other one employs a novel approach with nominal variation in the parameters for the initial steps of TMP. Consequently, the as-received lamellar structure transformed into an equiaxed one, instead of a bimodal. To gain a deeper insight, the dominant mechanisms for microstructural evolution following each TMP steps are critically analyzed. Particular focus was to identify the variation in micromechanism with the alteration in the processing parameters, em-ployed in the new approach. The corresponding effects in modifying the localized and globalized me-chanical properties of the as-received and processed alloys are investigated extensively and the microstructure-property correlations are established. While the alloy in as-received condition revealed the least hardness, the equiaxed one obtained with the novel TMP approach showed the highest value, even improved from the bimodal microstructure. The role of individual constituents in affecting the hardness of the alloys are further evaluated. The research also emphasizes that the studied Ti-6Al-4V alloy in the form of different microstructures (lamellar, bimodal, equiaxed) do show indentation size effect leading to in-creased hardness with reduced load. The equiaxed structure is however least prone to the size effect, thereby revealing lesser variation in properties for small-scale applications. Furthermore, the equiaxed microstructure also exhibited a combination of higher global strength and ductility, as realized from tensile tests. The study is the first of its kind to highlight the scope for generating the equiaxed microstructure in Ti-6Al-4V alloy, through a novel processing route, leading to the best possible combination of mechanical properties. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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